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 Campbell Halavais.
Princeton, 1280 pp., £148.95, February 2017,978 0 691 16347 5 Show More
edited by Andrea Carandini, translated by Andrew Campbell Halavais.
Princeton, 1280 pp., £148.95, February 2017,
“... vaguer, and accuse the evolutionists of a teleological approach that the evidence can’t confirm. Daniel Gargola fits into this latter category: the mountain of details he accumulates, in a series of allusive, loosely thematic chapters, makes a pretty compelling case that Roman concepts of space and its control were primarily shaped by religion ... ”