Rome : day one / Andrea Carandini ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Uniform Title: | Roma. English |
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Main Author: | |
Language: | English |
Language of the Original: |
Italian |
Published: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2011], ©2011.
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Subjects: | |
Physical Description: | 172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- First thoughts
- An epochal event
- The site of Rome before Rome
- The places of Rome
- Remus and Romulus and the kings of Alba Longa
- The Palatine
- The preliminary rite on the Aventine
- The blessing of the Palatine and the founding of Roma quadrata
- The founding of the forum, the capitol, and the citadel
- The forum
- The capitolium and the arx
- The ordering of the regnum, or the constitutio romuli
- The ordering of time
- The ordering of space and men
- Enemies.