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Item Number: 113546
Title: Il campus : Organizzazione e funzione di uno spazio pubblico in eta romana. Le testimonianze in Italia e nelle Province occidentali
Author: Borlenghi, Aldo
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788871404547
Description: Roma: Quasar, 2011. 30cm., pbk., 379pp., 152 illus., 2 tables, 2 plates. Summary: In Roman times, the campus represented not only a public structure for athletic purposes, it was also a place for physical exercise and the “military” manoeuvres of the iuvenes. For the citizens too, it was a place where people could go and spend their free time. Epigraphic and archaeological evidence from the late Republican and Imperial period suggest that the campus was an architecturally structured space, situated outside the walls. It was a flat area the boundaries of which were fixed by a wall, occasionally supplemented by other structures, such as a porticus or a piscina. The campus diffused around the municipia, coloniae and other settlements of Italy and the western provinces. Their creation brought with it the intervention of the Imperial household, local magistrates and local patrons. The ideological archetype of every campus was the Campus Martius in Rome. That being said, it is possible that the campus had, more specifically, as its typological model, the Saepta. (Thiasos, Rivista di archeologia e storia dell'architettura antica, 1)
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