Roman Imperial Architecture

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Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1994 - Architecture - 532 pages
The history of Roman Imperial architecture is one of the interaction of two dominant themes: in Rome itself the emergence of a new architecture based on the use of a revolutionary new material, Roman concrete; and in the provinces, the development of interrelated but distinctive Romano-provicial schools. The metropolitan school, exemplified in the Pantheon, the Imperial Baths, and the apartment houses of Ostia, constitutes Rome's great original contribution. The role of the provinces ranged from the preservation of a lively Hellenistic tradition to the assimilation of ideas from the east and from the military frontiers. It was--finally--Late Roman architecture that transmitted the heritage of Greece and Rome to the medieval world.

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CONTENTS
9
Architecture in Rome and Italy from Augustus to the Mid Third Century
21
Architecture in Rome under the JulioClaudian Emperors A D 1468
45
Architecture in Rome from Vespasian to Trajan A D 69117
63
The Roman Architectural Revolution
97
Architecture in Rome from Hadrian to Alexander Severus A D 117235
121
Ostia
141
Italy under the Early Empire
157
Greece
255
Asia Minor
273
The Contribution of Asia Minor to the Architecture of the Empire
305
The North African Provinces
363
Architecture in Rome from Maximin to Constantine A D 235337
415
The Architecture of the Tetrarchy in the Provinces
441
List of Principal Abbreviations
467
Select Glossary
491

CONTENTS
162
Domestic Architecture in Town and Country
185
Gaul and the European Provinces
213
List of Illustrations
511
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