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Title Urban dreams and realities in antiquity : remains and representations of the ancient city / edited by Adam Kemezis.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Mnemosyne, supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 0169-8958 ; Volume 376
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity. 0169-8958 ; Volume 376.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Adam M. Kemezis -- PART I. CITY AS SPACE I : REMAINS ON THE GROUND -- In defense of Arkadia : the city as a fortress / Matthew Maher -- The Mundus of Caere and early Etruscan urbanization / Fabio Colivicchi -- "Fighting over a shadow?" : Hellenistic Greek cities and Greco-Roman cities as fora and media for multi-level social signaling / LuAnn Wandsnider -- Constructing an Oscan cityscape : Pompeii and the Eituns inscriptions / Tanya K. Henderson -- Unravelling the reality of a 'city' on the Deccan plateau / Aloka Parasher-Sen -- Monumentalising the ephemeral in ancient Rome / Steven Hijmans -- PART II. CITY AS SPACE II. LANDSCAPES IN LITERATURE -- Future city in the heroic past : Rome, Romans & Roman landscapes in Aeneid 6-8 / Eric J. Kondratieff -- Reading the civic landscape of Augustan Rome : Aeneid 1.421-429 and the building program of Augustus / Darryl A. Phillips -- The predatory palace : Seneca's Thyestes and the architecture of tyranny / Daniel B. Unruh -- Imperial Roman cities as places of memory in Augustine's confessions / Owen M. Ewald -- PART III. CITY AS IDENTITY I: CULTURES IN STONE -- Sacred exchange : the religious institutions of emporia in the mediterranean world of the later iron age / Megan Daniels -- Greek poleis in the Near East and their Parthian overlords / Josef Wiesehofer -- Civic identity in Roman Ostia : some evidence from dedications (inaugurations) / Christer Bruun -- Chariot racing in Hispania Tarraconensis : urban Romanization and provincial identity / Raymond Capra -- PART IV. CITY AS IDENTITY II : COMMUNITIES ON PAPER -- The seat of kingship : (re)constructing the city in Isaiah 24-27 / Ian Douglas Wilson -- Remembering pre-Israelite Jerusalem in late Persian Yehud : mnemonic preferences, memories and social imagination / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Memory and the Greek city in Strabo's geography / Edward Dandrow -- The ekklesia of early Christ-followers in Asia Minor as the eschatological New Jerusalem : counter-imperial rhetoric? / Ralph J. Korner -- From kinship to state : the family and the ancient city in nineteenth-century ethnology / Emily Varto.
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Subject Public spaces -- Social aspects.
Public spaces -- Social aspects.
Public spaces.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology, Urban.
Collective memory.
Collective memory.
Group identity.
Group identity.
City planning -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History.
City planning -- Social aspects.
Greece.
History.
City planning -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History.
City planning -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History.
Middle East.
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Greece -- History.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Cities and towns -- Rome -- History.
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Kemezis, Adam M., 1977- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Urban dreams and realities in antiquity 9789004277359 (DLC) 2014036723 (OCoLC)889181441
ISBN 9789004283893 electronic book
9004283897 electronic book
9789004277359
9004277358