Ancient Rome
Subtitle: art, architecture and history
By: Adab Gabucci ; edited by Stefano Peccatori and Stefano Zuffi ; translated by T.M. Hartmann
Contributors: Peccatori, Stefano; Zuffi, Stefano
Publisher: British Museum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780714122342
Subjects: Antiquities; Buildings, structures; History; Roman Art; Antiquités; Histoire; Buildings; Roman Architecture
Notes: Includes index.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: The Roman Republic Begins to Assert Itself --; title: Toward an Empire --; title: 27 B.C. -- A.D. 96: The Empire's Beginnings and Establishment --; title: The Pax Augusta: Ideology and Propaganda --; title: The Augustan Style --; title: A Portrait of Augustus --; title: The Ara Pacis --; title: Artistic Craftwork --; title: Livia's Villa --; title: The Provinces: Narbonesis Gaul --; title: Portraits of the Julio-Claudian Family --; title: Nero and the Domus Aurea --; title: The Flavian Dynasty: A Turning Point for the Principate --; title: Flavian Art --; title: Pompeii --; title: Styles of Pompeii --; title: The Arch of Titus and the Historic Roman Relief --; title: Bread of Circuses --; title: The Colosseum --; title: A.D. 96-192: The Height of the Empire: From Trajan to the Antonines --; title: Trajan the Optimus Princeps --; title: The Trajan Forum and Market --; title: The Provinces: Hispania --; title: Hadrian's Villa --; title: Hadrian and Antinous --; title: Urban and Architectural Development --; title: Palmyra --; title: The Eastern Rites: Isis --; title: Marble Funeral Monuments and Sarcophagi --; title: Mosaics and Stuccowork --; title: A Golden Age of Justice and Well-being --; title: The Antonine Column --; title: Marcus Aurelius --; title: A Turning Point during the Reign of Commodus --; title: The Portraits of Fayyum --; title: A.D. 192-305: Crisis in the Empire: From the Severans to the Tetrarchy --; title: A Turning Point for the Military --; title: Lepcis Magna --; title: Sculpture in Rome and Africa --; title: Portraits and Sarcophagi --; title: The Catacombs --; title: The Baths of Caracalla --; title: Invasions and Disorder --; title: Rome as Fortress: The Aurelian Walls --; title: The Tetrarchy: Toward a New Peace --; title: The Baths of Diocletian --; title: Diocletian's Reforms --; title: A.D. 305-565: The Fall of the Empire: Epilogue to an Ancient World --; title: The Christian Empire --; title: The Arch of Constantine --; title: Treveri --; title: Marble Inlay and Mosaics --; title: Piazza Armerina --; title: The Mausoleum of Constantina --; title: Aquileia --; title: The Sacred and Profane on Sarcophagi --; title: Diptychs --; title: Theodosius and the Suppression of Pagan Worship --; title: The Fall of the Western Empire --; title: Constantinople and the Triumph of Christian Art --; title: Justinian and the Byzantine Empire --; title: Ravenna. -- App.; title: The Roman Empire under Trajan (A.D. 98-117) -- -- App.; title: Fourth-Century Rome.