Building a new Rome
Subtitle: the Imperial colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC - AD 700)
By: edited by Elaine K. Gazda and Diana Y. Ng ; in collaboration with Ünal Demirer
Contributors: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Series: Kelsey Museum publication -- 5; Kelsey Museum publication -- 5.
Publisher: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780974187341
Subjects: Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Roman Antiquities; Architecture; History
Other titles: Virtual Antioch
Description: "The essays in this volume bring to bear the latest scholarly and technological trends in archaeological research to shed new light on the site of Pisidian Antioch in west-central Turkey. Drawing on 3-D virtual reality technology as well as archival material from a 1924 University of Michigan expedition to the site, the authors propose new reconstructions of the city's major excavated monuments. They also evaluate these monuments in relation to the social and political imperatives of Pisidian Antioch's hybrid culture--one that overlaid a Roman imperial colony on a Hellenistic Greek city in an Anatolian region long inhabited by Phrygians and Pisidians. The study of Pisidian Antioch is thus seen in the context of recent scholarship on Rome's colonial project in the eastern empire. An accompanying DVD presents a fly-over of the virtual city created to aid in the authors' research"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: The project and its scholarly context / Elaine K. Gazda and Diana Y. Ng; title: Psisidian Antioch: the urban instrastructure and its development / Adrian J. Ossi and J. Matthew Harrington; title: Ruler cult and colonial identity: the imperial sactuary at Pisidian Antioch / Benjamin Rubin; title: Architecture, entertainment and civic life: the theater at Pisidian Antioch / Hima Mallampati and Ünal Demirer; title: The Arch of Hadrian and Sabina at Psidian Antioch: imperial associations, ritual connections, and civic euergetism / Adrian J. Ossi; title: The Church of St. Paul and religious identities in 4th-century Pisidian Antioch / Lydia Herring-Harrington; title: The architecture of the sanctuary of Mên Askaênos: exploration, reconstruction, and ause / Katharine A. Raff; title: The cult of Mên at Pisidian Antioch / Lori Khatchadourian; title: Rebuilding Pisidian Antioch: a virtual model and a new mode of research and exhibition / J. Matthew Harrington; title: Archives related to University of Michingan research on Pisidian Antioch; title: Glossary.