The Cambridge companion to ancient Rome / edited by Paul Erdkamp.

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Other Authors: Erdkamp, Paul
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Physical Description:xx, 625 pages ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Ancient Rome.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The emergence of the city / Alexandre Grandazzi
  • Population size and social structure / Neville Morley
  • 3. Disease and death / Walter Scheidel
  • Slaves and freedmen / Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto
  • Immigration and cosmopolitanization / Claudia Moatti
  • Marriages, families, households / Beryl Rawson
  • Pack-animals, pets, pests, and other non-human beings / Michael MacKinnon
  • The urban topography of Rome / Elisha Dumser
  • Housing and domestic architecture / Glenn R. Storey
  • Regions and neighborhoods / J. Bert Lott
  • Monumental Rome / Roy D. Miller
  • (Sub)urban surroundings / Robert Witcher
  • The Tiber and river transport / Steven L. Tuck
  • Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome / Ray Laurence
  • The food supply of the capital / Paul Erdkamp
  • Counting bricks and stacking wood : providing the physical fabric / Shawn Graham
  • Water supply, drainage and watermills / Christer Bruun
  • Industries and services / Wim Broekaert and Arjan Zuiderhoek
  • Labour and employment / Cameron Hawkins
  • Professional associations / Jinyu Liu
  • Sex and the city / Thomas A. J. McGinn
  • Civic rituals and political spaces in Republican and Imperial Rome / Adam Ziolkowski
  • Policing and security / Benjamin Kelly
  • Riots / Gregory S. Aldrete
  • 'Romans, play on!': city of the games / Nicholas Purcell
  • The urban sacred landscape / Andreas Bendlin
  • Structuring time : festivals, holidays and the calendar / Michele R. Salzman
  • Cemeteries and catacombs / Leonard V. Rutgers
  • What difference did Christianity make? / A. D. Lee
  • The city in ruin : text, image, and imagination / Catharine Edwards
  • Roma aeterna / Ingrid Rowland.