Impact of the Ancient City Series
()
About this series
Titles in the series (3)
- Cities as Palimpsests?: Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism
1
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. Spanning the period from Constantine’s foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterized by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by travelers and other observers who passed through them. The independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to understand the many ways in which the cities’ pasts live on in their presents.
- Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City
2
The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process of remembering and forgetting stretching back to antiquity that took place throughout the former Roman world. This volume tackles this subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory, drawing upon the methodological and theoretical lenses of memory studies and resilience theory to view the way the Greco-Roman city lived and vanished for the generations that separate the present from antiquity. This book analyzes the different ways in which urban communities of the post-Antique world have tried to understand and relate to the ancient city on their own terms, examining it as a process of forgetting as well as remembering. Many aspects of the ancient city were let go as time passed, but those elements that survived, that were actively remembered, have shaped the many understandings of what it was. In order to do so, this volume assembles specialists in multiple fields to bring their perspectives to bear on the subject through eleven case studies that range from late Antiquity to the mid-twentieth century, and from the Iberian Peninsula to Iran. Through the examination of archaeological remains, changing urban layouts and chronicles, travel guides and pamphlets, they track how the ancient city was made useful or consigned to oblivion.
- Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid
3
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.
Related to Impact of the Ancient City
Related ebooks
Birds: Our Fine Feathered Friends: Seen by Sue and Drew Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents #20 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLegend of Isis Gallery #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpace Women Beyond the Stratosphere #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolitical Power: Joe Biden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5globo arte october issue 2021 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMicroguardians explain HIV and AIDS Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVincent Price Presents #04 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNurse Best's Medicinal Cocktails and Mocktails: Over 100 Cocktail and Mocktail Recipes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlackbeard Legacy #2 Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlying Saucers Vs. the Earth #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFemale Force: Hillary Clinton: Road to Secretary of State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLegend of Isis: The First Flight of Horus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe YaYa Books: A Trilogy, A Tribute In English and Spanish Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Alabaster Box...: Poetry, Prose, and Prayer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Muse #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRuth & Freddy #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLogan's Run: Aftermath Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrion the Hunter: Giant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Way Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReach Your Dreams: Five Steps to be a Conscious Creator in Your Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrimordia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOdyssey Presents: Gallery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJeremiah's Path to Confirmation: And his Pocketbook of seven, nine plus three Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrbit: Jack Kirby: Co-Creator of Captain America to X-Men Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings10 Things You Should Know About Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlackbeard Legacy #0 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolitical Power: Michele Bachmann Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrossed Wires: Team-Up Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdventures with Oakie the Other Heroes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Archaeology For You
Sex and Erotism in Ancient Egypt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Earth Chronicles Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Seven Books of The Earth Chronicles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Omm Sety's Egypt: A Story of Ancient Mysteries, Secret Lives, and the Lost History of the Pharaohs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The World According to Color: A Cultural History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Epic of Gilgamesh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Memory Code Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mystery of the Olmecs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Tudors: The Untold Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Utah Gold Rush: The Lost Rhoades Mine and the Hathenbruck Legacy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mound Builders Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anunnaki Chronicles: A Zecharia Sitchin Reader Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excavations at Ur Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Survive in Ancient Greece Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dinosaurs: 101 Super Fun Facts And Amazing Pictures (Featuring The World's Top 16 Dinosaurs) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Picts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Survive in Ancient Egypt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Aliens, Lost Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology & Hidden History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost King: The Search for Richard III Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Indian New England Before the Mayflower Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Past Crimes: Archaeological & Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related categories
Reviews for Impact of the Ancient City
0 ratings0 reviews