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"This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the first centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history. The contributions explore how these cities developed landscapes full of civic memory and ritual, saw commercial priorities transforming the urban environment, and began to expand significantly beyond their wall circuits. These inter-related developments not only changed how cities looked and could be experienced, they also affected the functioning of the urban community, and together contributed to keeping increasingly complex urban communities socially cohesive. By focusing on the transformation of urban landscapes in Late Republican and Imperial period, the volume adds a new, explicitly historical angle to current debates about urban space in Roman studies. Confronting archaeological and historical approaches, the volume presents developments in Italy, Africa, Greece and Asia Minor, thus significantly broadening the geographical scope of the discussion, and offering novel theoretical perspectives alongside well-documented, thematic case studies. Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism, or Roman history in the Late Republic and early Empire"--

Cities and towns --- Urbanization --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Cities and towns, Ancient --- History. --- Rome --- History --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Cities and towns. --- Urbanization. --- 510 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Rome (Empire). --- E-books

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Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Pompéi (Ville ancienne) --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- Economic conditions --- Pompeii (Extinct city) - Economic conditions

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A reevaluation of ancient people's attitudes to labor. From Plato's ideas about the meaning of work to Roman scupltors' commemoration of their labors, this volume addresses both philosophical and working people's own understanding of what it meant to work in the ancient world.

Labor --- Labor --- Work --- Social values --- Social values --- Civilization, Classical --- History

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"How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people's own ideas about what it meant to work. From Plato's terminology of labor to Roman prostitutes' self-proclaimed pride in their work, these chapters find ancient people assigning value to multiple different kinds of work, and many different concepts of labor"--

Labor --- Work --- Social values --- Civilization, Classical --- History --- Valeurs sociales --- Travail

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Even after more than 250 years since its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure. The discussions of domestic art in this book, a perennial topic for Pompeian scholars, engage previously neglected subjects such as wall ornaments in domestic decoration, the sculpture collection in the house of Octavius Quartio, and the role of the covered walkways in luxury villa archit

Art --- Architecture --- City and town life --- Industries --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Antiquities --- Intellectual life --- Social life and customs --- Economic conditions