Where Romulus Stood
Michael Kulikowski: Roman Town-Planning, 16 November 2017
The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces
by Daniel J. Gargola.
North Carolina, 320 pp., £47.95, March 2017,978 1 4696 3182 0 Show More
by Daniel J. Gargola.
North Carolina, 320 pp., £47.95, March 2017,
The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City
edited by Andrea Carandini, translated by Andrew CampbellHalavais.
Princeton, 1280 pp., £148.95, February 2017,978 0 691 16347 5 Show More
edited by Andrea Carandini, translated by Andrew CampbellHalavais.
Princeton, 1280 pp., £148.95, February 2017,
“... The Romans were formidably good at organising space. Anyone who has flown into Venice from the west will have noticed the unusually rectilinear field systems (Google Earth will show you too), a legacy of Roman surveyors two millennia ago, and far from unique: Roman conquerors and colonists left this type of centuriation behind wherever they went ... ”
