Item Number: 120951 Title: The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome Author: Erdkamp, Paul (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780521896290 Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 23cm., hardcover, 625pp. illus. Contents: 1. The emergence of the city Alexandre Grandazzi ; 2. Population size and social structure Neville Morley ; 3. Disease and death Walter Scheidel ; 4. Slaves and freedmen Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto ; 5. Immigration and cosmopolitanization Claudia Moatti ; 6. Marriages, families, households Beryl Rawson ; 7. Pack-animals, pets, pests, and other non-human beings Michael MacKinnon ; 8. The urban topography of Rome Elisha Dumser ; 9. Housing and domestic architecture Glenn R. Storey ; 10. Regions and neighborhoods J. Bert Lott ; 11. Monumental Rome Roy D. Miller ; 12. (Sub)urban surroundings Robert Witcher ; 13. The Tiber and river transport Steven L. Tuck ; 14. Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome Ray Laurence ; 15. The food supply of the capital Paul Erdkamp ; 16. Counting bricks and stacking wood: providing the physical fabric Shawn Graham ; 17. Water supply, drainage and watermills Christer Bruun ; 18. Industries and services Wim Broekaert and Arjan Zuiderhoek ; 19. Labour and employment Cameron Hawkins ; 20. Professional associations Jinyu Liu ; 21. Sex and the city Thomas A. J. McGinn ; 22. Civic rituals and political spaces in Republican and Imperial Rome Adam Ziolkowski ; 23. Policing and security Benjamin Kelly ; 24. Riots Gregory S. Aldrete ; 25. 'Romans, play on!': city of the games Nicholas Purcell ; 26. The urban sacred landscape Andreas Bendlin ; 27. Structuring time: festivals, holidays and the calendar Michele R. Salzman ; 28. Cemeteries and catacombs Leonard V. Rutgers ; 29. What difference did Christianity make? A. D. Lee ; 30. The city in ruin: text, image, and imagination Catharine Edwards ; 31. Roma aeterna Ingrid Rowland. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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