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Monumentality and the Roman Empire : architecture in the Antonine age / Edmund Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xxvi, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199288631
  • 9780199288632
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 722.7 22
LOC classification:
  • NA310 .T46 2007
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Monumental Form -- 1. Principles of monumental form in antiquity -- 2. The contribution of Antoninus Pius -- 3. The symbolic significance of monumental forms under the Antonines -- 4. Patrons and the monumentality of architecture -- 5. Creating form: architects in the Antonine age -- Conclusion -- Part II. Monuments of City and Empire -- 6. Buildings, politics, and the monumentality of Antonine cities -- 7. The cities and the emperor -- 8. Imperial architecture -- Conclusion -- Part III. Monuments and Memory -- 9. The monuments of the past -- 10. Building the monuments of the future -- Conclusion -- Part IV. Responses to Monuments -- 11. Experiencing and responding to public architecture -- 12. The architectural descriptions of Lucian of Samosata -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Monumental Form -- 1. Principles of monumental form in antiquity -- 2. The contribution of Antoninus Pius -- 3. The symbolic significance of monumental forms under the Antonines -- 4. Patrons and the monumentality of architecture -- 5. Creating form: architects in the Antonine age -- Conclusion -- Part II. Monuments of City and Empire -- 6. Buildings, politics, and the monumentality of Antonine cities -- 7. The cities and the emperor -- 8. Imperial architecture -- Conclusion -- Part III. Monuments and Memory -- 9. The monuments of the past -- 10. Building the monuments of the future -- Conclusion -- Part IV. Responses to Monuments -- 11. Experiencing and responding to public architecture -- 12. The architectural descriptions of Lucian of Samosata -- Conclusion.

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