Taking public space as her starting point, Amy Russell offers a fresh analysis of the ever-fluid public/private divide in Republican Rome. Built on the 'spatial turn' in Roman studies and incorporating textual and archaeological evidence, this book uncovers a rich variety of urban spaces. No space in Rome was solely or fully public. Some spaces were public but also political, sacred, or foreign; many apparently public spaces were saturated by the private, leaving grey areas and room for manipulation. Women, slaves, and non-citizens were broadly excluded from politics: how did they experience and help to shape its spaces? How did the building projects of Republican dynasts relate to the communal realm? From the Forum to the victory temples of the Campus Martius, culminating in Pompey's great theatre-portico-temple-garden-house complex, The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome explores how space was marked, experienced, and defined by multiple actors and audiences.

The Politics of Public Space in Republican Rome

Il foro romano. Periodo arcaico

This article contains five notes on Roman topography. The first three briefly argue (1) that the uia Tecta supposedly to be placed in the Campus Martius has perhaps arisen from corruption of uia Recta; (2) that the temple of Juturna, placed by Ovid near the arches of the Aqua Virgo, could not have stood where Largo Argentina now is, but further north, perhaps in the grounds of Santa Maria in Via; and (3) that the rites of Anna Perenna described by Ovid in Fasti 3 took place near the Mausoleum of Augustus, and not at the recently discovered spring near Piazza Euclide. Note (4) exhibits the evidence for regarding the twin summits of the Capitol and the Arx as the duo luci between which the Asylum was set up, and goes on to suggest that Vergil and Ovid may have used the name Ianiculum to refer to the Arx; (5) demonstrates that in with the name of a hill can refer to any site from the foot up, and builds on this in arguing that the phrase Concordia in Arce refers to a temple constructed where the slope rises from the Forum.

Roman Topography and Latin Diction

This thesis investigates the significance of representations of Venus and their spatial contexts in Pompeii. The database for this thesis comprises 197 representations of Venus in Pompeii, of which 162 are from domestic contexts. This is the first time a comprehensive study of images of a single deity in Pompeii has been undertaken. I identify and compare the different types of Venus representations within domestic contexts and their locations. I also compare them with those from public contexts to ascertain any wider trends regarding artworks featuring Venus across Pompeii and to assess whether the public or domestic context of an artwork featuring Venus affected its content or location. I adopt a quantitative approach based on my database so that my conclusions are substantiated by numerical data. This is a departure from the more qualitative approach previously taken to relationships between decoration and room function. This thesis concludes that Venus does not occur more often in areas pertaining to her spheres of influence (such as bath areas and gardens) compared with other areas of the house. It is relatively rare in domestic contexts for the room type to influence the content of artworks featuring Venus. Several artworks featuring Venus appear to have religious, ritual, or protective significance, and she was sometimes invoked as a protector of the water supply in Pompeii (ascertained through the composition and location of these artworks). An examination of the spatial distribution of artworks featuring deities in a subset of three houses indicates that despite being the patron deity of Pompeii and occurring more frequently than other deities in fixed artworks in this sample, Venus was sometimes of less significance than other deities in the paintings and pavements of these three houses when factors such as allusions to deities and sight-lines are considered.

Venus in Pompeii : iconography and context

This chapter considers the practice and organization of agricultural production in Roman Italy drawing on textual, archaeological, and ethnoarchaeological evidence. As well as reviewing the types of crops cultivated and animals husbanded, it considers broader questions about the scale of production and the social organization of labor (e.g. peasants, slaves, tenants). The chapter outlines the significance of critical new approaches to ancient texts and recent archaeological discoveries for established narratives of agricultural production and agrarian relations. This includes questioning the extent to which peasant farmers were systematically pushed from the land and the significance of oil and wine production in the economic fortunes of the Republican aristocracy. Throughout, examples are used to demonstrate how powerful ancient and modern assumptions (e.g. the self-sufficient peasant, “decline”) shape interpretation of texts and archaeological evidence.

/pdf/agricultural-production-in-roman-italy-52h4x3g0oo.pdf

Agricultural Production in Roman Italy

L'edificio sul Campidoglio conosciuto attualmente come tabularium e uno dei pochi monumenti esistenti della Roma repubblicana ancora ben conservati e studiati relativamente bene. Ciononostante la sua funzione non e ancora chiara. Lo stesso nome ‘Tabularium’ e stato sottoposto a discussione in molte occasioni e quasi certamente e sbagliato. Vengono valutati i recenti srudi di Nicholas Purcell, Henner von Hesberg e Pier Luigi Tucci. Avendo esaminato in dettaglio l'evidenza storica e archeologica, l'autore propone che questo complesso capitolino sia la base (substructio) di un triplice tempio dedicate a Venus Victrix (il piu importante situate al centro), al Genius publicus populi Romani e a Fausta Felicitas. Supporto per questa interpretazione va cercato nei fasti fratrum Arvalium del 9 ottobre. Esso rappresenta una chiara testimonianza del potere e della ideologia di Silla, che dominavano gli spazi delle politiche tradizionali con immensa forza.

Substructio et tabularium

Fin dal 2005 la British School at Rome con l'Università di Perugia e la Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio sta conducendo uno studio sistematico del territorio di Cittareale, situato sulle montagne appenniniche a nord-est di Rieti, lungo la Via Salaria, sul confine tra le regioni Lazio, Umbria e Marche. Il progetto è parte di una serie più ampia di eventi programmati per il 2009 per ricordare il bimillenario della nascita di Vespasiano, ed è focalizzato principalmente sulla localizzazione e lo scavo del vicus di Falacrinae, dove Svetonio riporta che nacque l'imperatore. Il progetto ha comportato come prima cosa un programma di indagine di superficie, quindi l'analisi di una serie di siti attraverso la ricognizione geofisica, e lo scavo. Questo contributo presenta i risultati delle ricognizioni geofisiche e li compara con le evidenze emerse dallo scavo.

Investigations at Falacrinae, the birthplace of Vespasian

Handle everyday research tasks with reliable, citation-backed results

Your personal Research Agent to handle research tasks with citation-backed results

Popular Tasks used by Researchers

How can I help with your research?

Meet SciSpace

Get more enhanced response by uploading the PDFs you want me to reference.

No relevant PDFs in your library

SciSpace is the AI research assistant for academics. Run systematic literature reviews on 280M+ papers, and write papers with cited sources. Trusted by 1M+ students, PhDs & researchers.

SciSpace | AI for Research

Analyze PDFs

Code & Manuscripts

Funding & Grants

Literature & Patents

Medical & Clinical Data

Systematic Review

Visualize & Present

Web & Data

Build a Google Scholar-like website for your research.

Build a website

Create charts and images for your research

Create a Chart

Write a paper for submission to a journal

Draft a manuscript

Patent Search

Design eye-catching scientific posters in minutes.

Scientific Poster Generation

Systematic Literature Review

One task is running at the moment. Your messages will be shown right after.

Drag and drop or click here to browse

Loved by <highlight>1 million+</highlight> researchers

Extract a list of specific topics and their sources from unstructured text

Topics

Compare and analyze relevant papers that matches with your search

Papers

Get insights from PDFs and bookmarked papers from your library

My library

Recent searches

Try searching for:

Catch AI-generated content in scholarly and non-scholarly content

{ai} Detector

Ai Writer

Get PDF Summaries, highlighted text explanations 

Chat with PDF

Effortlessly create in-text citations and bibliographies in APA and 2,500 other formats

Citation generator

Get explanations, summaries, and answers on academic papers

Ease up your research workflow with {scispace}'s cohort of exciting AI tools

Elevate your academic writing skills and convey your ideas the way you want

Paraphraser

Explore our range of reading and writing tools

Your file is being prepared and should be ready in a few minutes. If it's a large file, it might take a bit longer. You can close this window, and we'll email you the file when it's done.

You have reached a maximum limit of <strong>{limit}</strong> columns in the table. Remove at least <strong>1</strong> column to add or create another one.

Filippo Coarelli

Author Tools

Chat about Author

Papers

Substructio et tabularium

Investigations at Falacrinae, the birthplace of Vespasian