Research Catalog

Title

Origins of the colonnaded streets in the cities of the Roman East / Ross Burns.

Author

Burns, Ross

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Description

xvi, 409 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "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 Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities' prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman' in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study concentrates on the convergence of ideas behind these great avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from North Africa around to Asia Minor. It looks at the phenomenon in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule."--
• 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 Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities' prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman' in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study concentrates on the convergence of ideas behind these great avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from North Africa around to Asia Minor. It looks at the phenomenon in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule.

Subject

• To 1500
• Cities and towns, Ancient > Middle East
• Roman provinces > Middle East
• Streets > Middle East > History > To 1500
• Cities and towns, Ancient
• Roman provinces
• Streets
• Kolonnade
• Städtebau
• Middle East
• Römisches Reich > Ostprovinzen

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-397) and index.

ISBN

• 9780198784548
• 0198784546

LCCN

2016958022

OCLC

• ocn962330779
• 962330779
• SCSB-8868936

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries