Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome

Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome

Russell, Amy (University of Durham)

Cambridge University Press

12/2015

248

Dura

Inglês

9781107040496

15 a 20 dias

In Republican Rome the Forum Romanum, the Capitoline, victory temples, and Pompey's theatre complex were less public than they appear. Using innovative spatial approaches to question the public/private divide, Amy Russell deploys archaeological and textual evidence to propose a new understanding of public space.
1. Introduction; 2. Roman concepts: publicus and privatus; 3. The definition of political space in the Forum Romanum; 4. The Forum between political space and private space; 5. Gods, patrons, and community in sacred space; 6. Greek, Roman, public, and private: the space of art and the art of space; 7. Pompey and the privatisation of public space on the Campus Martius; 8. Conclusion: the death of public space?