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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Davies, Penelope Jane Ellis (1964-....)
Titre(s) : Architecture and politics in Republican Rome [Texte imprimé] / Penelope J.E. Davies
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : xii, 366 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 319-350 and index
"Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection
between Roman Republican building practices and politics (c.509-44 BCE). At the start
of the period, architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the political
system; by the end, buildings were so widely exploited and so rhetorically powerful
that Cassius Dio cited abuse of visual culture among the reasons that propelled Julius
Caesar's colleagues to murder him in order to safeguard the Republic. In an engaging
and wide-ranging text, Penelope J.E. Davies traces the journey between these two points,
as politicians developed strategies to manoeuver within the system's constraints.
She also explores the urban development and image of Rome, setting out formal aspects
of different types of architecture and technological advances such as the mastery
of concrete. Elucidating a rich corpus of buildings that have been poorly understand,
Davies demonstrates that Republican architecture was much more than a formal precursor
to that of imperial Rome"
Sujet(s) : Architecture et politique -- Rome
Rome -- 509-30 av. J.-C. (République)
Indice(s) Dewey :
720.222 45632 (23e éd.) = Architecture - Images et illustrations connexes - Italie - Rome
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107094314. - ISBN 1107094313
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45592374r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45592374
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A republic takes shape : ca. 509-338 ; An age of individualism : ca. 337-218 ;
A state of fear, and new horizons : ca. 217-134 ; Turmoil and tension : ca. 133-90
; Civil war and aftermath : ca. 89-70 ; Pompey, Caesar, and rivals : ca. 69-55 ;
Caesar, Pompey, and rivals : ca. 54-44.
