Archaeopress, 2015. — 234 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 6). This thesis explores the complexity and fluidity of Egyptian cultural identity in architectural form in Roman Egypt. It covers the period from the Roman conquest in 30 BC to the official recognition of Christianity in AD 325. The thesis focuses on the relationship between architectural form and layers of...
INAPH, 2021. — 561 p. — (Colección Petracos 4). Le présent volume rassemble diverses études qui, sous le titre “Bâtir en Afrique et en Ibérie pendant l’Antiquité”, ont pour principal objet d’analyser l’architecture, ou plutôt “l’art de bâtir”. Le croisement de méthodologies, d’hypothèses théoriques et d’approches pratiques d’une part et l’étude de paysages bâtis, d’édifices...
Longanesi, 2014. — 363 p. Architetto che ha fatto una lunga esperienza di archeologo e che ama in maniera profonda il costruire degli antichi, Adam ha anche grandissime doti di intelligente divulgatore, come attesta, oltre a questo libro, anche un delicato documentario di analogo soggetto da lui girato in Italia pochi anni orsono. Per Adam la tecnica costruttiva antica nasce...
Routledge, 2005. — 368 p. With over 750 illustrations, Roman Buildings is a thorough and systematic examination of Roman architecture and building practice, looking at large-scale public buildings as well as more modest homes and shops. Placing emphasis on the technical aspects of the subject, the author follows the process of building through each stage -- from quarry to...
Electa, 2000. — 110 p. Hadrian. The architectural plan of the villa. The rediscovery of the villa. The buildings of the hadrian's Villa. Pecile. The hundred chambers. The baths with Heliocaminus. The philosopher's chamber. The maritime theatre. Library courtyard. With bibliography. The Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana in Italian) is a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli,...
Electa, 2000. — 110 p. A practical, complete guide for those wishing to explore the monumental complex built by the Emperor Hadrian in 118 AC as a government palace and vacation residence. After a short historical profile of the Roman emperor, the volume examines the spaces and buildings of the residence, built over an earlier Republican-era villa from the 2nd century BC and...
Electa, 2000. — 117 p. Una guida per chi desidera avventurarsi nel monumentale complesso voluto dall’imperatore Adriano nel 118 d.C. come palazzo governativo e insieme sede di villeggiatura. Dopo un breve profilo storico della figura dell’imperatore romano, il volume presenta gli ambienti e gli edifici in cui si sviluppava la residenza, sorta su una precedente villa...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 129 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 34). Il complesso di Baitokaike (Hoson Sulaiman) è considerato uno degli esempi più peculiari di santuari rurali romani in Siria che pongono la problematica relativa alla creazione dei luoghi di culto extraurbani e il loro sviluppo architettonico durante il periodo classico. Questo lavoro si propone di affrontare...
Macmillan , 1909. — 425 p. IN publishing this treatise on Greek Architecture I wish to acknowledge my obligations to many writers. These are all recorded in the List of Abbreviations at the end of the volume and in the references given in the text. But a more special acknowledgment is due to the scholars whose work has appeared in the publications of the German Government on...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 682 p. — (Image & Context 8). This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 264 p. — (BAR International Series 485). This volume is divided into three chapters. The first chapter presents the "archeological evidence", i. e., the surveyed, excavated and published major sites in Palestine that have yielded Hellenistic remains. Since regionalism is an aspect in our inquiry, we deviated from the common methodology of proceeding from...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 267 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 35). In recent years an increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of water management in the ancient civilizations has generated much new discussion on water archaeology in ancient Greece. The present volume, Great Waterworks in Roman Greece, consists the very first presentation of large scale waterworks in...
Axel Menges, 2013. — 173 p. The book covers all aspects of road and bridge construction in the Roman Empire, from commissioning, planning and design to contracting and execution. Technical details include surveying, materials, tools and implements. The Roman road network is shown with Latin place names; principles and types of construction are explained. The core of the work...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 184 p. The Alexandrian Corinthian Capital and its Role in the Evolution of the Corinthian Order in Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Roman Architecture discusses the evolution of the Corinthian capital in Antiquity and how this centred around Alexandria rather than Mainland Greece. It tackles the rise of the Corinthian capital in Classical Greece and its...
Philipp von Zabern, 1996. — 500 S. `Stadt' kann auf vielerlei Weise definiert werden, und jede Definition mag für sich genommen richtig sein. Einfache Definitionsversuche begnügen sich damit, eine Stadt nach ihrer Bevölkerungsanzahl zu bemessen; differenziertere Definitionsmodelle erwähnen als weitere Kriterien etwa geschlossene Bebauung, Arbeitsteilung der Bewohner oder aber...
Walter de Gruyter, 2023. — 256 S. — (Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy 6). Das Buch untersucht das Zusammenspiel von alten und neuen Decor-Elementen auf der Insula IX 5 in Pompeji in der letzten Phase der Stadt zwischen 62–79 n. Chr. Dabei wird für die Häuser erstmals der Versuch unternommen, Bau- und Ausstattungsphasen zu greifen. Die...
Walter de Gruyter, 2023. — 256 S. — (Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy 6). Das Buch untersucht das Zusammenspiel von alten und neuen Decor-Elementen auf der Insula IX 5 in Pompeji in der letzten Phase der Stadt zwischen 62–79 n. Chr. Dabei wird für die Häuser erstmals der Versuch unternommen, Bau- und Ausstattungsphasen zu greifen. Die...
The University of Michigan Press, 2012. — 152 p. — (Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome XXXII). The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are inseparable from elite lifestyles, providing a prestigious setting...
UMI, 2007. — 350 p. The built, urban context of the city served as the dominant mechanism by which Rome’s hegemony expanded during the Republican period. As Rome’s political and territorial influence grew, encompassing first Italy and, later, the Mediterranean basin, the physical and institutional aspects of urban contexts developed along similar lines so that by the first...
Sansoni, 1962. — 507 p. Lo scopo di questo libro è duplice : esso non vuole soltanto presentare, così come ci sono pervenuti, i monumenti che si trovano nel vasto ambito dell'antica Ellade quali testimonianze di uno sviluppo artistico singolare, quanto scoprire piuttosto il vero e profondo significato di questi monumenti e fare risorgere intatto davanti ai nostri occhi quello...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. — 145 p. — (College Art Association Monograph 41). Here is the basic study, with measured drawings, photographs, and written description, of a major monument in Iran, the ruins of Sarvistan, which has been much discussed but up to now has been poorly documented and is thus little known. The author examined the ruins of all buildings...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011. — 241 p. — (Forschungen in Ephesos IX/5). This volume aims to present a comprehensive publication of the Roman Bouleuterion (town hall) at the Greco-Roman site of Ephesos (Turkey) including its decoration. It is based on a manuscript by the late L. Bier concerning the history of research and the architecture of the...
BAR Publishing, 2002. — 304 p. — (BAR British Series 329). The eminent scholar in the field of Roman architecture, Thomas Blagg, died in 2000. As a further mark of respect Grahame Soffe, Martin Henig, and Anthony King have collaborated in this publication of T F C Blagg's London Ph.D. thesis from the early '70s. It is a study of the decorated stonework used in the construction...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 328 p. A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC) is the first systematic study of Late Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications in the territories of ancient Argos and the city-states of the Argolic Akte (northeastern Peloponnese). Based on one of the largest regional corpora of Greek fortified sites to date, the...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 324 p. A princeps from A.D. 117 to 138, Hadrian left an indelible mark on the city of Rome and the Roman empire, and even today many of the bestknown buildings of ancient Rome are Hadrianic. The enigmatic Pantheon, the looming mass of the Temple of Venus and Roma, Hadrian’s enormous Mausoleum transformed into Castel Sant’Angelo, and his...
Penguin Books, 1978. — 272 p. — (The Pelican History of Art). This account begins in 1400 BC with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and Etruscans who had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell by 600 BC.
University of Michigan Press, 1960. — 195 p. The Golden House of Nero: Some Aspects of Roman Architecture is a book written by Axel Boethius that explores the architectural features of one of the most famous buildings in ancient Rome - the Golden House of Nero. The book provides a comprehensive description of the building's design, construction, and decoration, as well as its...
Routledge, 2000. — 276 p. The Roman amphitheatre was a site both of bloody combat and marvellous spectacle, symbolic of the might of Empire; to understand the importance of the amphitheatre is to understand a key element in the social and political life of the Roman ruling classes. Generously illustrated with 141 plans and photographs, The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre offers...
De Boccard, 1997. — 144 p. — (Sites et monuments 16). Le sanctuaire d'Athéna, appelé la Marmaria se situe en contrebas du sanctuaire d'Apollon. Il comprenait plusieurs bâtiments, dont un temple d'Athéna et un temple circulaire qui fut édifié vers l'an 380 avant notre ère. Des vingt colonnes doriques de ce tholos, qui entouraient le podium, trois furent reconstruites en 1938.
De Boccard, 1991. — 287 p. — (Sites et monuments 7). Delphes représente un ensemble artistique unique. Le mont Parnasse est un chef-d'œuvre formé d'une série de monuments dont les éléments modulaires - terrasses, temples, trésors, etc. - se combinent pour offrir un témoignage saisissant des valeurs matérielles et spirituelles d'un site qui a pu être décrit comme magique. Situé...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 304 p. Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. The subterranean collective burial chambers have repeatedly sparked the imagination of modern commentators, but their origins and function remain obscure. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome situates...
Laterza, 2006. — 503 p. Dalla Grecia all'Asia Minore, al mondo ellenistico, al mondo romano, a Bisanzio, fino alla cultura protoislamica: sedici secoli di storia dell'architettura. Nell’VIII secolo avanti Cristo la madrepatria greca, attraverso la mediazione delle precedenti civiltà mediterranee, definisce il concetto di architettura e lo impone al successivo corso della...
Laterza, 2006. — 503 p. Dalla Grecia all'Asia Minore, al mondo ellenistico, al mondo romano, a Bisanzio, fino alla cultura protoislamica: sedici secoli di storia dell'architettura. Nell’VIII secolo avanti Cristo la madrepatria greca, attraverso la mediazione delle precedenti civiltà mediterranee, definisce il concetto di architettura e lo impone al successivo corso della...
BAR Publishing, 1988. — 408 S. — (BAR International Series 458). Unter dem Begrif Stadttor wird hier ei n formal und funktional spezifischer Bautyp aus dem Bereich der Wehrarchitektur verstanden, der als Durchlaß durch die Wehrmauer einer städtischen Siedlung fungiert. Obwohl der Gebäudecharakter das Stadttor in aller Regel von den übrigen Bestandteilen der Befestigung deutlich...
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983. — 404 p. Die römischen Thermen galten schon in der Antike als Inbegriff dessen, was wir heute als Wellness bezeichnen. Die meist prächtig ausgestatteten Bäder waren ein wichtiger Anziehungspunkt des öffentlichen Lebens. Hier traf man sich zu geselligem Gespräch oder zu Sport und Spiel – und dabei kamen auch die leiblichen Genüsse wie...
Harvard University Press , 2015. — 368 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports. Book 6). Sardis was home to one of the earliest known Christian communities, appearing among the Seven Churches of Asia in the mid-first century AD. Between 1962 and 1973, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis excavated two superimposed churches at the ancient site, one early...
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 503 S. — (Urban Spaces 1). Peristylbauten konnten innerhalb der griechischen Städte eine Vielzahl von öffentlichen Funktionen erfüllen: Sie dienten als Heiligtümer, Bankettbauten, Gymnasia, Amtslokale oder Marktgebäude. Allen Bauten gemein ist jedoch ihre räumliche Organisation um den zentralen Hof sowie die damit einhergehende Abgeschlossenheit nach...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 424 p. The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to another, was in the course of little more than a century transformed in the...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2017. — 456 S. — (RGZM – Tagungen 33). Die schier unüberschaubare Anzahl antiker Städte lässt keinen Zweifel daran, wo im klassischen Altertum das Leben pulsierte. Worin genau die große Anziehungskraft der Städte bestand, lässt sich allerdings nur anhand seltener Äußerungen in den Schriftquellen erahnen: Abgesehen von den...
Laterza, 2010. — 406 p. In una striscia di terra, tra il Palatino e il colle Oppio, a ridosso del Foro, l'aristocrazia prende dimora. È questa la parte prestigiosa di Roma, ricca di storia, vicina ai luoghi istituzionali e tuttavia appartata, ben frequentata e piena di bei salotti e di mercati di lusso. Andrea Carandini entra nelle case del potere, nei grandi atri per il...
Laterza, 2008. — 306 p. La casa di Augusto è stata a lungo un labirinto inestricabile. La complessità della stratificazione, per molto tempo fraintesa, rendeva impossibile ricostruirne le vicende. Oggi quella storia possiamo finalmente raccontarla. I dati raccolti durante gli scavi e la riflessione su di essi restituiscono in presa diretta l'attività di Augusto nella sua casa,...
Laterza, 2016. — 273 p. Tra i luoghi che scopriremo con Andrea Carandini: Le case del re dei sacrifici e di Tarquinio Prisco; Grandissime corti porticate; Banchine sul Tevere; Il maggiore tempio di Roma e dell'Impero; Saloni da pranzo della domus Aurea; Il Pantheon di Augusto ricostruito da Adriano; Giardini in forma di teatro e d'ippodromo; Suites di sale; Due tempia del divo...
UTET, 2014. — 603 p. L’universo di Roma antica sfugge a una decifrazione immediata. Il patrimonio sterminato di architetture, sculture, pitture e arti minori è letto spesso come un insieme di capolavori isolati, mirabilia estrapolati da ogni contesto. Andrea Carandini – uno dei massimi archeologi contemporanei, artefice di quello straordinario tour de force erudito e...
UTET, 2015. — 368 p. L’universo di Roma antica sfugge a una decifrazione immediata. Il patrimonio sterminato di architetture, sculture, pitture e arti minori è letto spesso come un insieme di capolavori isolati, mirabilia estrapolati da ogni contesto. Andrea Carandini – uno dei massimi archeologi contemporanei, artefice di quello straordinario tour de force erudito e...
Philipp von Zabern, 1983. — 130 S. Die Identifikation und Kenntnis der Gebäude, die Octavianus Augustus im Jahr 36 v. Chr., nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem siegreich beendeten Feldzug gegen Sextus Pompeius, auf dem Palatin hat errichten lassen, gehen weit über das rein archäologische Interesse hinaus, da diese in der Geschichte und Politik seiner Zeit wurzeln. Zu diesen Gebäuden...
University of Pennsylvania, 1970. — 240 p. During recent years there has been an increasing number of studies made of the various types of buildings in the repertory of ancient Greek architecture. But much remains to be done. There is a continuing need to collect the scattered publications of the excavated remains of Greek buildings other than temples , of which our knowledge...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 641 p. — (BAR International Series 2398). This study of the different types of funeral architecture in Roman Egypt sheds new light on the question of the contacts between Egypt and the other provinces in the Empire. Funeral architecture in Roman Egypt has been largely neglected by scientists despite abundant archaeological literature on the subject. Yet,...
BAR Publishing, 2007. — 304 p. — (BAR International Series 1731). Roman Africa. Until recently, scholars have tended to study architecture and decoration of Roman houses as separate, visual forms of classical art to be analysed in terms of description, classification, and typological survey. This new work follows recent scholarship, in contrast, by examining domestic buildings...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2008. — 288 p. — (Textos Universitarios 42). Esta segunda edición del libro Acueductos Romanos en España sale a la luz 36 años después de la primera, que publicó el Instituto Eduardo Torroja a partir de seis artículos aparecidos en la revista Informes de la Construcción, entre los años 1968 y 1972. La edición se hizo mediante una...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2008. — 604 p. — (Textos Universitarios 43). En esta publicación se reúnen doce artículos que desde marzo de 1955 y durante 25 años, Carlos Fernández Casado publicó en la revista Informes de la Construcción, editada por el Instituto Eduardo Torroja del CSIC. Se trata de una segunda edición, que mantiene fielmente los textos, las...