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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Amanda Claridge (Reader in Classical Archaeology, Royal Holloway, University of London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.696kg ISBN: 9780199546831ISBN 10: 0199546835 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 05 August 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Historical Overview Documentary Sources Glossary The Roman Forum The Upper Via Sacra The Palatine Imperial Forums Field of Mars (Campus Martius) Capitoline Hill Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus Colosseum Valley and Esquiline Hill Caelian Hill and the inner Via Appia Lateran-Porta Maggiore The Viminal Pyramid-Testaccio Across the Tiber Parks of the Appia Antica Other Sites outside the Walls Museums Catacombs Chronological Table Opening Times and Charges References and Further Reading IndexReviews<br> We have long needed what no one before Claridge has provided: a synthesis, balanced and user-friendly, of all [the] recent scholarship, one that sets Roman monuments in their proper urban and historical contexts, and accurately describes what is currently known or thought about them. . . . [T]ravellers . . .will welcome a synthesis so balanced, intelligent and well informed, and will find Amanda Claridge a fine companion on their archaeological walks in Rome. --Times Literary Supplement<br> <br> We have long needed what no one before Claridge has provided: a synthesis, balanced and user-friendly, of all [the] recent scholarship, one that sets Roman monuments in their proper urban and historical contexts, and accurately describes what is currently known or thought about them. . . . [T]ravellers . . .will welcome a synthesis so balanced, intelligent and well informed, and will find Amanda Claridge a fine companion on their archaeological walks in Rome. --Times Literary Supplement<p><br> Claridge's book will appeal to a range of readers--from armchair archaelogists to serious visitors and students of Rome's archaeology.... Recommended. --CHOICE<p><br> Author InformationAmanda Claridge is Reader in Classical Archaeology, Royal Holloway, University of London, and was formerly Lecturer in Archaeology at St John's College, Oxford. Assistant Director of the British School in Rome from 1980 to 1994, she is the author of numerous publications on Roman archaeology. Her wider archaeological activities include fieldwork in Italy, North Africa, and Turkey, and the study of Roman marbles and sculptural techniques, on which she is a noted authority. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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