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The Cambridge companion to ancient Rome
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to ancient Rome / edited by Paul Erdkamp.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-9181 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Erdkamp, Paul.
- Description
- xx, 625 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- [Cambridge companions to the ancient world]
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge companions to the ancient world.
- Alternative Title
- Ancient Rome
- Subjects
- Note
- Series title from publisher's Web site.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-604) and index.
- Contents
- The emergence of the city / Alexandre Grandazzi -- Population size and social structure / Neville Morley -- 3. Disease and death / Walter Scheidel -- Slaves and freedmen / Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto -- Immigration and cosmopolitanization / Claudia Moatti -- Marriages, families, households / Beryl Rawson -- Pack-animals, pets, pests, and other non-human beings / Michael MacKinnon -- The urban topography of Rome / Elisha Dumser -- Housing and domestic architecture / Glenn R. Storey -- Regions and neighborhoods / J. Bert Lott -- Monumental Rome / Roy D. Miller -- (Sub)urban surroundings / Robert Witcher -- The Tiber and river transport / Steven L. Tuck -- Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome / Ray Laurence -- The food supply of the capital / Paul Erdkamp -- Counting bricks and stacking wood : providing the physical fabric / Shawn Graham -- Water supply, drainage and watermills / Christer Bruun -- Industries and services / Wim Broekaert and Arjan Zuiderhoek -- Labour and employment / Cameron Hawkins -- Professional associations / Jinyu Liu -- Sex and the city / Thomas A. J. McGinn -- Civic rituals and political spaces in Republican and Imperial Rome / Adam Ziolkowski -- Policing and security / Benjamin Kelly -- Riots / Gregory S. Aldrete -- 'Romans, play on!': city of the games / Nicholas Purcell -- The urban sacred landscape / Andreas Bendlin -- Structuring time : festivals, holidays and the calendar / Michele R. Salzman -- Cemeteries and catacombs / Leonard V. Rutgers -- What difference did Christianity make? / A. D. Lee -- The city in ruin : text, image, and imagination / Catharine Edwards -- Roma aeterna / Ingrid Rowland.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-9181
- ISBN
- 9780521720786 (pbk.)
- 0521720788 (pbk.)
- 9780521896290 (hardback)
- 0521896290 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012027120
- OCLC
- 799025039
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to ancient Rome / edited by Paul Erdkamp.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Series
- [Cambridge companions to the ancient world]Cambridge companions to the ancient world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-604) and index.
- Added Author
- Erdkamp, Paul.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-9181