Urban dreams and realities in antiquity
Subtitle: remains and representations of the ancient city
By: edited by Adam Kemezis
Series: Mnemosyne, supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity -- Volume 375; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- v. 375.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9789004277359; 9789004283893
Subjects: Collective memory; Public spaces; Social aspects; Cities and towns; Group identity; City planning; Urban Sociology; Ancient Cities and towns; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction / Adam M. Kemezis; title: PART 1. CITY AS SPACE I : REMAINS ON THE GROUND; title: In defense of Arkadia : the city as a fortress / Matthew Maher; title: The Mundus of Caere and early Etruscan urbanization / Fabio Colivicchi; title: "Fighting over a shadow?" : Hellenistic Greek cities and Greco-Roman cities as fora and media for multi-level social signaling / LuAnn Wandsnider; title: Constructing an Oscan cityscape : Pompeii and the Eítuns inscriptions / Tanya K. Henderson; title: Unravelling the reality of a 'city' on the Deccan Plateau / Aloka Parasher-Sen; title: Monumentalising the ephemeral in ancient Rome / Steven Hijmans; title: PART 2. CITY AS SPACE II. LANDSCAPES IN LITERATURE; title: Future city in the heroic past : Rome, Romans and Roman landscapes in Aeneid 6-8 / Eric J. Kondratieff; title: Reading the civic landscape of Augustan Rome : Aeneid 1.421-429 and the building program of Augustus / Darryl A. Phillips; title: The predatory palace : Seneca's Thyestes and the architecture of tyranny / Daniel B. Unruh; title: Imperial Roman cities as places of memory in Augustine's confessions / Owen M. Ewald; title: PART 3. CITY AS IDENTITY I: CULTURES IN STONE; title: Sacred exchange : the religious institutions of emporia in the Mediterranean world of the later Iron Age / Megan Daniels; title: Greek poleis in the Near East and their Parthian overlords / Josef Wiesehöfer; title: Civic identity in Roman Ostia : some evidence from dedications (inaugurations) / Christer Bruun; title: Chariot racing in Hispania Tarraconensis : urban Romanization and provincial identity / Raymond L. Capra; title: PART 4. CITY AS IDENTITY II : COMMUNITIES ON PAPER; title: The seat of kingship : (re)constructing the city in Isaiah 24-27 / Ian Douglas Wilson; title: Remembering pre-Israelite Jerusalem in late Persian Yehud : mnemonic preferences, memories and social imagination / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Memory and the Greek city in Strabo's geography / Edward Dandrow; title: The ekklēsia of early Christ-followers in Asia Minor as the eschatological New Jerusalem : counter-imperial rhetoric? / Ralph J. Korner; title: From kinship to state : the family and the ancient city in nineteenth-century ethnology / Emily Varto.