The story of the Roman amphitheatre / David Bomgardner.
By: Bomgardner, D. L. (David Lee) [author.].
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BookPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Second edition, revised and updated.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 427 pages) : illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315724577; 131572457X; 9781317531364; 1317531361; 9781317531357; 1317531353; 9781317531340; 1317531345.Subject(s): Amphitheaters -- Rome | Architecture and society -- Rome | HISTORY / Ancient / GeneralDDC classification: 725/.8270937 Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Summary: "This thoroughly updated and enlarged edition illuminates the epic story of the birth, early development, widespread flourishing and slow decline of that most typical Roman monument, the amphitheatre. This lucid and accessible work, lavishly illustrated with plans and photographs, breaks new ground with the incorporation of sociological, psychological, historical and even ecological material into the study of the amphitheatre. A more varied and wider ranging series of case studies provides the backbone of this new edition. They are included either because of their own intrinsic importance (Corinth, Pergamon, Trier, Chester), because they have been recently reinvestigated and well reported (Fréjus, Mérida), because they have been excavated and thoroughly published (Saintes, Augst, Avenches, Virunum), or have only been discovered in the past two decades (London, Virunum, Córdoba and Cartagena). This volume is a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Roman history and architecture, and this new updated edition will bring this topic to a new generation of readers"-- Provided by publisher.
"This thoroughly updated and enlarged edition illuminates the epic story of the birth, early development, widespread flourishing and slow decline of that most typical Roman monument, the amphitheatre. This lucid and accessible work, lavishly illustrated with plans and photographs, breaks new ground with the incorporation of sociological, psychological, historical and even ecological material into the study of the amphitheatre. A more varied and wider ranging series of case studies provides the backbone of this new edition. They are included either because of their own intrinsic importance (Corinth, Pergamon, Trier, Chester), because they have been recently reinvestigated and well reported (Fréjus, Mérida), because they have been excavated and thoroughly published (Saintes, Augst, Avenches, Virunum), or have only been discovered in the past two decades (London, Virunum, Córdoba and Cartagena). This volume is a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Roman history and architecture, and this new updated edition will bring this topic to a new generation of readers"-- Provided by publisher.
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