A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: the Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East

Data evento
4 December 2024

This lecture turns to the rapidly expanding city centers of the first three centuries of the Roman period. These grew fast and were embellished with the monumental buildings that we know from the core of the Roman Empire: temples, theatres, bath buildings, hippodromes, colonnaded streets. These monuments are well known, but not always in context. Here we look at examples, considering differences and similarities from region to region as well as wider urban settings—including the lack of knowledge about domestic housing. Urban epigraphic habits are brought into play to examine ways in which local cultures interacted with growing Roman influence and negotiated having become a more integrated part of an expanding imperialistic empire.

https://isvroma.org/2024/11/19/4-12-thomas-spencer-jerome-lectures-series/