Romanization and the City, Creation, Transformations, and Failures

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Journal of Roman Archaelogy Supplementary Series 38

Proceedings of a Conference Held at the American Academy in Rome to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the excavations at Cosa May 14-16 1998

231 s, s/b resimler, sert kapak ciltli, İngilizce.

CONTENTS:

• Preface and Acknowledgements, by E. Fentress
• Cosa: a selected bibliography, by E. Fentress
  
  CITIES AND COLONIZATION
• Elizabeth Fentress / Introduction: Cosa and the idea of the city 
• Paul Zanker /  The city as symbol: Rome and the creation of an urban image 
  
  THE FRESCO OF A CITY ON THE COLLE OPPIO
• Giovanni Caruso e Rita Volpe / Preesistenze e persistenze delle Terme di Traiano 
• E. La Rocca / L'affresco con veduta di città dal colle Oppio (with colour plates after p. 72)
  
  NEW CITIES
• Friedrich Rakob / The making of Augustan Carthage (with colour plate before p. 73) 
• David Romano / A tale of two cities: Roman colonies at Corinth 
• Henry Hurst / The fortress coloniae of Roman Britain: Colchester, Lincoln and Gloucester 
• Greg Woolf / Urbanization and its discontents in early Roman Gaul 
  
  ROMANIZATION IN URBANIZED CONTEXTS
• Fikret K. Yegül / Memory, metaphor and meaning in the cities of Asia Minor 
• Susan Downey / Dura Europos and the transformation of the Seleucid city 
• Alan K. Bowman / Urbanisation in Roman Egypt 
  
  TRANSFORMATION AND FAILURES
• Stephen L. Dyson / The limited nature of Roman urbanism in Sardinia 
• Mary Downs / Refiguring colonial categories on the Roman frontier in southern Spain 
• Pierre Gros / L'odéon dans la basilique: mutation des modèles ou désagrégation des programmes? 
  
  CONCLUSIONS
• Susan E. Alcock / Heroic myths, but not for our times