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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
472
Utgivningsdatum
2021-04-01
Förlag
Italica Press
Medarbetare
Taylor, Rabun M.
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Illustrations, unspecified
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216 x 140 x 27 mm
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595 g
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1
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1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
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9781599102221

Ancient Naples

A Documentary History Origins to c. 350 CE

av Rabun M Taylor
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-04-01
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Rabun M. Taylor offers the first comprehensive survey of ancient Naples in the English language, tracing the history of the city from its origins into late antiquity. Prof. Taylor discusses the city's physical setting, geography and geology, climate and agriculture, its territory, and the constant shadow of Vesuvius.

Deploying archeological finds, coinage, pottery, and ceramics, he follows the history and mythology of Greek Neapolis from its founding in the seventh century BCE, its relations with neighboring Greek and Campanian cities and peoples, its political organization, population and demographics, economy, and trade. With the changes in the city's political and culture life under Rome, Neapolis emerges as a center of Greek and Hellenistic culture and of Roman otium. Later chapters present Roman Neapolis' major monuments, including its forum duplex, temple of the Dioscuri, marketplace, harbor, aqueducts, baths, and water supply. Central to the Romans' impact on the city was its Greek Sebasta Games, its villa life and culture, and its intellectual activity that drew such notables as Cicero, Augustus, Nero, Statius, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Virgil. The volume concludes with a survey and interpretation of current research on the late imperial and early Christian city.

Ancient Naples builds its narrative and analysis from the extant fragments of textual evidence. But apart from a few long inscriptions of fairly formulaic character, some potted speeches in Livy, a brief geographical foray by Strabo, and a single poem by Statius, no sustained passage of poetry, prose, or administrative record-keeping survives from the ancient world that places Neapolis at its center of interest. What do survive in significant numbers are random or passing references to Neapolitan history, monuments, institutions, and daily life; and this volume draws on this wide-ranging miscellany of textual sources.

Parallel with the texts, Prof. Taylor provides close analysis and interpretation of recent archaeological finds and of material objects as documents of the city's life and times fully as important and informative as the literary sources. A series of Commentaries complements the narrative and Readings and provides new insights into an array of topics ranging from the city's origins, its villa life, Trimalchio's Feast, and Nero's stage debut to Vesuvius' eruption, the Sebasta Games, and Constantine's gifts to Neapolis.

470 pages. Preface, introduction, 102 Readings, 31 Commentaries, notes, and bibliography. 113 b&w figures.

History, archaeology, classical studies, art history, urban studies, cultural studies.
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Rabun M. Taylor is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1997. From 1998 to 2007 he taught in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University before moving to his current academic home. His scholarly work ranges from Greek and Roman architecture and urbanism to the art, technology, religion, and social history of the Roman period. He has published extensively on the water supply of ancient Rome. Since 2010 he has directed the Aqua Traiana Project, which aims to recover the source architecture and elucidate the history of the emperor Trajan's aqueduct serving the capital from the early second century CE into the medieval period. His books include Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome ("L'Erma di Bretschneider," 2000); Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (Cambridge University Press, 2003); The Moral Mirror of Roman Art (Cambridge University Press, 2008); and, with Katherine Rinne, Rome: An Urban History (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He is currently co-editing a volume for the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Technology. His articles on Roman topics have appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, the Papers of the British School at Rome, Arethusa, and RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, among others.

Innehållsförteckning

illustrations

readings

commentaries

abbreviations

preface & acknowledgments

introduction

disasters and opportunities

recent archaeology

a word on style and language

references

chapter 1. the physical setting

geography and geology

climate and agriculture

the territory of neapolis

the specter of calamity

references

chapter 2. the greek city

prehistory

naples within remotest memory

parthenope and early neapolis in literature

the foundation myth

parthenope, neapolis, and cumae

syracuse and ischia

the athenian connection

the rise of the samnites

city organization and administration

archaeology

references

chapter 3. early coinage of neapolis

die studies: neapolis' contact with samnite cities

neapolitan coins in context

parthenope and the bull-man

the winged spirit of tereina and neapolis

athena on neapolitan coinage

other early types

bronze in the fourth and third centuries bce

silver coinage: fourth and third centuries bce

who put control marks on coins, and why?

neapolitan coinage under rome

references

chapter 4. neapolis and the rise of rome

introduction

the second samnite war

romano-campanian coinage

neapolis and rome after 327/6 bce

the crisis of 216-211 bce and the last neapolitan coinage

neapolis as a commercial power in the second century bce

sulla

references

chapter 5. from republic to empire

the landscape of disaster

the high empire

population and demographics

city government

the phratries in the roman period

conclusion

references

chapter 6. a glimpse of roman neapolis

introduction

forum duplex

the odeion and theater

the temple of the dioscuri

the complex at s. lorenzo maggiore

the sebasta games and the kaisareion

the harbor

the honorific arch at piazza bovio

neapolis and the food supply for italy

outside the walls: cemeteries

suburbs

hedging her bets

references

chapter 7. the culture of water

gods of the water

the thermo-mineral baths

the roman hydraulic infrastructure

the serino aqueduct

the bolla aqueduct

conventional baths

references

chapter 8. haven of hellenism: greek culture in roman neapolis

the landscape of the mind

the villa culture under the republic

the cult and tomb of virgil

pausilypon and other imperial villas

statius

the games at neapolis

roots of the games

visual arts

references

chapter 9. the third century and constantine

the third century

constantine and the city

references

bibliography

index

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