Rome, Ostia, Pompeii

Movement and Space

Edited by Ray Laurence and David J. Newsome

Extensively illustrated throughout.
Provides detailed case studies underpinned by the latest theoretical developments in urban studies.

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii

Movement and Space

Edited by Ray Laurence and David J. Newsome

Description

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development.

The chapters in this book examine the impressions left by the movement of people and vehicles as indentations in the archaeological and historical record, and as impressions upon the Roman urban consciousness. Through a broad range of historical issues, this volume studies movement as it is found at the city gate, in public squares and on the street, and as it is represented in texts. Its broad objective is to make movement meaningful for understanding the economic, cultural, political, religious, and infrastructural behaviours that produced different types and rhythms of interaction in the Roman city.

This volume's interdisciplinary approach will inform the understanding of the city in classics, ancient history, archaeology and architectural history, as well as cultural studies, town planning, urban geography, and sociology.

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii

Movement and Space

Edited by Ray Laurence and David J. Newsome

Dedication
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Making Movement Meaningful, David J. Newsome
Part I: Articulating Movement and Space
1: Movement and the Linguistic Turn: Reading Varro s de Lingua Latina, Diana Spencer
2: Literature and the Spatial Turn: Movement and Space in Martial s Epigrams, Ray Laurence
3: Measuring spatial visibility, adjacency, permeability and degrees of street life in Pompeii, Akkelies van Nes
4: Towards a Multisensory Experience of Movement in the City of Rome, Eleanor Betts
Part II: Movement in the Roman city: infrastructure and organisation
5: The Power of Nuisances on the Roman Street, Jeremy Hartnett
6: Pes dexter: Superstition and the state in the shaping of shop-fronts and street activity in the Roman world, Steven Ellis
7: Cart Traffic Flow in Pompeii and Rome, Alan Kaiser
8: Where to Park? Carts, Stables and the Economics of Transport in Pompeii, Eric E. Poehler
9: The Spatial Organisation of the Movement Economy: The Analysis of Ostia s scholae, Hanna Stöger
Part III: Movement and the Metropolis
10: The Street Life of Ancient Rome, Claire Holleran
11: The City in Motion: Walking for transport and leisure in the city of Rome, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
12: Movement and Fora in Rome (the Late Republic to the first century CE), David J. Newsome
13: Movement, gaming and the use of space in the forum, Francesco Trifilò
14: Construction Traffic in Imperial Rome: Building the Arch of Septimius Severus, Diane Favro
15: Movement and urban development at two city gates in Rome: the Porta Esquilina and Porta Tiburtina, Simon Malmberg and Hans Bjur
Endpiece
From Movement to Mobility: Future Directions, Ray Laurence
Bibliography

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii

Movement and Space

Edited by Ray Laurence and David J. Newsome

Author Information

Edited by Ray Laurence, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University, and David J. Newsome, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham

Ray Laurence is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. In 2006 he won the 'Longman-History Today New Generation Prize for book most likely to inspire the young to study history' for his volume Pompeii The Living City.

David J. Newsome was awarded his PhD in 2010 from the University of Birmingham. He won the BABESCH-Byvanck Award in 2008 for his innovative research on traffic and urban change at Pompeii. Both have published widely on the Roman city.

Contributors:

David J. Newsome
Diana Spencer
Ray Laurence
Akkelies van Nes
Eleanor Betts
Jeremy Hartnett
Steven Ellis
Alan Kaiser
Eric E. Poehler
Hanna Stöger
Claire Holleran
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
David J. Newsome
Francesco Trifilò
Diane Favro
Simon Malmberg and Hans Bjur
Ray Laurence

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii

Movement and Space

Edited by Ray Laurence and David J. Newsome

Reviews and Awards

"This widely divergent collection of papers, contributed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, is highly specialised although, as all the Latin quotations are translated, also accessible to academics in such fields as Cultural Studies, Town Planning, Urban Geography and Sociology, from which it derives much of its specialist terminology. But it does reward persistence with a very vivid vision of the teeming streets of ancient Roman towns." - Claire Gruzelier, Classics for All

"The editors and contributors are to be commended for pointing us in a new direction and restoring movement to our reconstructions of Rome." - Timothy O'Sullivan, Journal of Roman Studies

". . . will be of interest not only to students of the past but even to todays town planners . . . opening a new historiography" - Prof. Barbara Levick, Greece & Rome

"This is a very rich volume that scholars will want to read in its entirety." - Miko Flohr, The Classical Review

"This highly detailed and absorbing study crosses academic disciplines, is, as one would expect from its editors, thoroughly researched with an extensive bibliography, and is peppered with entertaining gems" - Caitlin McCall, World Archaeology

"Each chapter has something to recommend it . . . this is a beautifully produced book that moves its reader onto and through the streets of the Roman city." - Rebecca R. Benefiel, sehepunkte

"[the essays] maintain a high level of theoretical analysis and show thorough knowledge of both literary and archaeological sources . . . A special feature is the bibliography, covering no fewer than 40 pages, and constituting a guide to the best work in Roman archaeology and social history in the last 100 years. A work of advanced scholarship for advanced scholars." - R. L. Frank, CHOICE

"The evidence, theories, and methodologies used by the contributors provide a synthesis demonstrating how further study of movement in the Roman world can aid in explaining cultural, social, political and economic change." - T.K. Henderson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"in presenting a broad collection of scholarship explicitly focused on movement, the editors have reinvigorated future research on space and movement and have proven its interdisciplinary applicability . . . an ambitious and innovative collection of stimulating scholarship that is certain to have a considerable impact on the future of spatial studies and will clearly form a core text for both scholars and students of Roman urbanism for many years to come." - Michael A. Anderson, American Journal of Archaeology