RT Book
T1 Origins of the colonnaded streets in the cities of the Roman East
A1 Burns, Ross 1943-
LA English
PP Oxford New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2017
ED First edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/88134561X
AB "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."--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HT114
SN 9780198784548
SN 0198784546
K1 Roman provinces : Middle East
K1 Streets : Middle East : History : To 1500
K1 Cities and towns, Ancient : Middle East
K1 Streets : History : To 1500 : Middle East
K1 Cities and towns, Ancient
K1 Roman provinces
K1 Streets