The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory
case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of …

The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently.
Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the …

Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized
themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived …

Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World Page 1 Urban Space and Urban History in
the Roman World This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the …

If the Greeks had the reputation of aiming most happily in the founding of cities, in that they
aimed at beauty, strength of position, harbours, and productive soil, the Romans had the …

This article delves into the intricate landscape of urbanism in the Roman Near East,
challenging traditional archaeological practices and perspectives. It highlights a surprising …

When discussing buildings or building activity in previous TRAC volumes, people have dealt
with subjects such as monumentality (Aitchison 1999), ideology (Kerr 2002), the role of …

The altars of the Lares Augusti, their imagery and spatial contexts, as well as the institution
of the Augustan vicomagistri are commonly treated as a homogeneous phenomenon in …

Few Roman cities emerged in locations supporting straightforward, planned urban
development, and all cities had to deal with the regular, but extreme Mediterranean weather …

This thesis details the development of fora in Rome and Pompeii in order that our
understanding of these spaces as' centres' accounts for their changing relationship with the …