Roger B. Ulrich is Ralph Butterfield Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College, where he teaches Roman Archaeology and Latin and directs Dartmouth’s Rome Foreign Study Program in Italy. He is the author of The Roman Orator and the Sacred Stage: The Roman Templum Rostratum(1994) and Roman Woodworking (2007).Caroline K. Quenemoen is Professor in the Practice and Director of Fellowships and Undergraduate Research at Rice University. Previously she taught courses in Greek and Roman art and archaeology at Rice. Her research focuses on Roman architecture, including articles on the House of Augustus.

"This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015)"The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students." (Choice, 1 June 2013)"The line-up of contributers is extremley impressive, with most chapters written by the very scolors whose names immediately sprang to my own mind on seeing their titles" (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)

• List of Illustrations viiiContributors xiiiMaps/General Images xviiiIntroduction 11. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE 6Jeffrey A. Becker2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in Republican Rome 27Penelope J.E. Davies3. Creating Imperial Architecture 45Inge Nielsen4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian 63Caroline K. Quenemoen5. The Severan Period 82Edmund V. Thomas6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy 106Emanuel Mayer7. Architect and Patron 127James C. Anderson, jr.8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building 140John R. Senseney9. Materials and Techniques 157Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich10. Labor Force and Execution 193Rabun Taylor11. Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus 207John W. Stamper12. Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman Italy 228Tesse D. Stek13. Fora 248James F.D. Frakes14. Funerary Cult and Architecture 264Kathryn J. McDonnell15. Building for an Audience: The Architecture of Roman Spectacle 281Hazel Dodge16. Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae 299Fikret K. Yegül17. Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica 324Roger B. Ulrich18. Domus/Single Family House 342John R. Clarke19. Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces 363Mantha Zarmakoupi20. Romanization 381Louise Revell21. Streets and Facades 399Ray Laurence22. Vitruvius and his Influence 412Ingrid D. Rowland23. Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanità 426Genevieve S. Gessert24. Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus 446Melanie Grunow Sobocinski25. Conservation 462William AylwardGlossary 480References 501Index 565

Roger B. Ulrich is Ralph Butterfield Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College, where he teaches Roman Archaeology and Latin and directs Dartmouth’s Rome Foreign Study Program in Italy. He is the author of The Roman Orator and the Sacred Stage: The Roman Templum Rostratum(1994) and Roman Woodworking (2007).Caroline K. Quenemoen is Professor in the Practice and Director of Fellowships and Undergraduate Research at Rice University. Previously she taught courses in Greek and Roman art and archaeology at Rice. Her research focuses on Roman architecture, including articles on the House of Augustus.

"This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015)"The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students." (Choice, 1 June 2013)"The line-up of contributers is extremley impressive, with most chapters written by the very scolors whose names immediately sprang to my own mind on seeing their titles" (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)

• List of Illustrations viiiContributors xiiiMaps/General Images xviiiIntroduction 11. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE 6Jeffrey A. Becker2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in Republican Rome 27Penelope J.E. Davies3. Creating Imperial Architecture 45Inge Nielsen4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian 63Caroline K. Quenemoen5. The Severan Period 82Edmund V. Thomas6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy 106Emanuel Mayer7. Architect and Patron 127James C. Anderson, jr.8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building 140John R. Senseney9. Materials and Techniques 157Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich10. Labor Force and Execution 193Rabun Taylor11. Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus 207John W. Stamper12. Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman Italy 228Tesse D. Stek13. Fora 248James F.D. Frakes14. Funerary Cult and Architecture 264Kathryn J. McDonnell15. Building for an Audience: The Architecture of Roman Spectacle 281Hazel Dodge16. Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae 299Fikret K. Yegül17. Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica 324Roger B. Ulrich18. Domus/Single Family House 342John R. Clarke19. Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces 363Mantha Zarmakoupi20. Romanization 381Louise Revell21. Streets and Facades 399Ray Laurence22. Vitruvius and his Influence 412Ingrid D. Rowland23. Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanità 426Genevieve S. Gessert24. Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus 446Melanie Grunow Sobocinski25. Conservation 462William AylwardGlossary 480References 501Index 565