Research Catalog

Title

Roman roads : new evidence - new perspectives / Edited by Anne Kolb.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

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Additional Authors

Kolb, Anne

Description

vi, 434 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm

Summary

This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective. The focus is on the diverse local histories and the varying degrees of significance of individual roads and regional networks, which are treated here for the most important regions of the empire and beyond.The assembled contributions will be of interest to historians, archaeologists and epigraphers, since they tackle matters as diverse as the technical modalities of road-building, the choice of route, but also the functionality and the motives behind the creation of roads. Roman roads are further intimately related to various important aspects of Roman history, politics and culture. After all, such logistical arteries form the basis of all communication and exchange processes, enabling not only military conquest and security but also facilitating the creation of an organized state as well as trade, food supply and cultural exchange. The study of Roman roads must always be based on a combination of written and archaeological sources in order to take into account both their concrete geographical location and their respective spatial, cultural, and historical context.

Subjects

• Rome (Empire)
• Roads, Roman
• Rome > Antiquities
• Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Via ducta--Roman Road Building: an Introduction to Its Significance, the Sources and the State of Research / Anne Kolb -- Roads in the Roman World: Strategy for the Way Forward / Richard Talbert -- Roots to Routes: Gandhara's Landscapes of Mobility / Grant Parker -- Rom und die Fernhandelswege durch Arabien / Michael A. Speidel -- Le livre de poste de Turbo, curateur du praesidium de Xèron Pelagos (Aegyptus) / Hélène Cuvingy -- Travelling between the Euphrates and the Tigris in Late Antiquity / Anthony Comfort -- Milestones near Roman Army Installations in Desert Areas of the Provinces of Palaestina and Arabia / Chaim Ben David -- Römische Straßen und Meilensteine im Ebenen Kilikien / Mustafa H. Sayar -- CIL XVII, 5, 3: Neue Meilensteine und Straßen aus der Cilicia Aspera / Hamdi Șahin -- Via publica vel militaris: Die Bernsteinstraße in spätantoninischer und severischer Zeit / Stefan Groh , Heiga Sedimayer -- Peutinger Map, the Roman Army and the First Military Roads in Dacia / Florin-Gheorghe Fodorean -- Roman Roads in Moesia Superior at Six Points / Miroslava Mirković -- Some Considerations about the Roman Road Network in Central Balkan Provinces / Vladimir P. Petrović -- Du premier millitaire au dernier palimpseste: cinq siècles et demi de présence romaine en Grèce / Franc̦ois Mottas -- Militaria in der Provinz Lusitiania / Michael Rathmann -- Road Network and Roman Frontier in Numidia: the Region of Tobna / Stéphanie Guédon -- Twin Roads: the Road Carthage-Theveste and via nova Rusicadensis; some Observations and Questions / Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers -- Militari e viabilità dell'Etruria romana: un aggiornamento e alcune considerazioni / Alfredo Buonapane, Chantal Gabrielli -- Excavations in the North of Italy along the via Claudia Augusta / Patrizia Basso.

Call Number

JFE 20-1426

ISBN

• 9783110618693
• 3110618699

LCCN

2018967637

OCLC

1059261873

Title

Roman roads : new evidence - new perspectives / Edited by Anne Kolb.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kolb, Anne, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1426