The Cambridge Companion to Ancient RomePaul Erdkamp The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome offers thirty-one original essays by leading historians, classicists and archaeologist on the largest metropolis of the Roman Empire. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are famous features of the Roman capital, Rome is addressed in this volume primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived, and died. The clearly written and succinct chapters discuss numerous issues related to the capital of the Roman Empire: from the monuments and the games to the food- and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, the Companion explains ground-breaking new research against the background of current debate and reaches a level of sophistication that will be appreciated by the experts. |
Contents
The urban fabric | 4 |
The emergence of the city | 8 |
Population size and social structure | 29 |
Disease and death | 45 |
Slaves and freedmen | 60 |
Immigration and cosmopolitanization | 77 |
Marriages families households | 93 |
Pack animals pets pests and other nonhuman | 110 |
Industries and services | 317 |
Labour and employment | 336 |
Professional associations | 352 |
Sex and the city | 369 |
Civic rituals and political spaces in republican | 389 |
Policing and security | 410 |
Riots | 425 |
Romans play on city of the Games | 441 |
The urban topography of Rome | 131 |
Housing and domestic architecture | 151 |
Regions and neighbourhoods | 169 |
Monumental Rome | 190 |
Suburban surroundings | 205 |
The Tiber and river transport | 229 |
Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome | 246 |
The food supply of the capital | 262 |
providing | 278 |
Water supply drainage and watermills | 297 |
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