Roman Urbanism in Italy: Recent Discoveries and New Directions (University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monographs)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8888570373
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9798888570371
• Author: Alessandro Launaro

This study presents new evidence for the development of commerce and inter-regional trade through survey and analysis of urban layout and architecture. The study of Roman urbanism – especially its early (Republican) phases – is extensively rooted in the evidence provided by a series of key sites, several of them located in Italy. Some of these Italian towns (e.g. Fregellae, Alba Fucens, Cosa) have received a great deal of scholarly attention in the past and they are routinely referenced as textbook examples, framing much of our understanding of the broad phenomenon of Roman urbanism. However, discussions of these sites tend to fall back on well-established interpretations, with relatively little or no awareness of more recent developments. T

Table contents:

1. Introduction

Part I. Methods and approaches

2. Approaches to Roman urbanism in Italy: the example of Falerii Novi

3. The changing face of the eastern Caelian in the 1st–4th centuries AD: work by the Rome Transformed Project

4. Luck is in the research method: Aquinum, the rediscovery of an ‘invisible’ town

Part II. Beyond the textbook

5. Cosa, Orbetello, and the genesis of a colony

6. The archaeology of Fregellae: an update

7. One should always dress like a marble column (Jackie Kennedy-Onassis): new insights on the urbanism of Alba Fucens

Part III. Not your standard Roman town

8. From sanctuary to settlement: mapping the development of Lucus Feroniae through geophysical prospection

9. Septempeda: integrated approaches for revealing a ‘small town’ in Picenum

Part IV. Roman towns in the longue durée

10. Lunae: new perspectives from recent archaeological fieldwork

11. Interamna Lirenas: how special?

12. A town and its road: Aeclanum on the via Appia

Part V. Late Antiquity and beyond

13. New archaeological perspective on Late Antique Aquileia

14. Bridging the gap: new data on the settlement continuity in Parma from the stone bridge

15. Conclusion: recent discoveries and new directions

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