Informationen zum Autor Miko Flohr is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of urban economies in Roman Italy. He published the monograph The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (2013), and co-edited the volumes Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (2016), and The Economy of Pompeii (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph on the architectural and economic history of the taberna and co-editing Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World . Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis From urban space to urban history an introduction Miko Flohr PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation Amy Russell Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii Annette Haug Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment Miko Flohr PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae Patric-Alexander Kreuz Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece Christopher P. Dickenson Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa Cristina Murer Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome Marlis Arnhold PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism Elizabeth Fentress Fora and commerce in Roman Italy Miko Flohr The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb Touatia Amraoui The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies Candace M. Rice PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction Saskia Stevens The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context Sandra Zanella Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann ...

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Miko Flohr is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of urban economies in Roman Italy. He published the monograph The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy **(2013), and co-edited the volumes Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (2016), and The Economy of Pompeii (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph on the architectural and economic history of the taberna and co-editing Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

1. From urban space to urban history an introduction ** Miko Flohr

PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY

2. Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation ** Amy Russell

3. Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii ** Annette Haug

4. Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment ** Miko Flohr

PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE

5. Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae ** Patric-Alexander Kreuz

6. Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece ** Christopher P. Dickenson

7. Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa ** Cristina Murer

8. Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome ** Marlis Arnhold

PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE

9. Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism ** Elizabeth Fentress

10. Fora and commerce in Roman Italy ** Miko Flohr

11. The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb ** Touatia Amraoui

12. The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies ** Candace M. Rice

PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS

13. Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction ** Saskia Stevens

14. The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context ** Sandra Zanella

15. Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann