Roman urbanism
Subtitle: beyond the consumer city
By: edited by Helen M. Parkins.
Contributors: Parkins, Helen, 1966-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Rome; Urban archaeology; Rome -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Writing the Roman metropolis / Ray Laurence; title: The idea of a city : élite ideology and the evolution of urban form in Italy, 200 BC-AD 100 / Kathryn Lomas; title: Cities in context : urban systems in Roman Italy / Neville Morley; title: Mobility and social change in Italian towns during the principate / Henrik Mouritsen; title: The 'consumer city' domesticated? : the Roman city in élite economic strategies / Helen Parkins; title: Roman households : an archaeological perspective / Penelope M. Allison; title: Ritual and power in the Romano-Egyptian city / Richard Alston; title: Ideology and reception : reading symbols of Roman Cyrene / Eireann Marshall; title: Beyond belief? : drawing a line beneath the consumer city / David J. Mattingly.