The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome

376 Pages·2015·3.409 MB·English

by  Ida Ostenberg, Simon Malmberg, Jonas Bjørnebye

The Moving City
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The Moving City
Processions, Passages and
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Edited by Ida Östenberg, Simon
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgements x
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Ida Östenberg, Simon Malmberg and Jonas Bjørnebye
Part 1 Elite Movement 11
1. Power Walks: Aristocratic Escorted Movements in Republican Rome 13
Ida Östenberg
2. ‘Moving through Town’: Foreign Dignitaries in Rome in the Middle and
Late Republic 23
Richard Westall
3. Livia on the Move 37
Lovisa Brännstedt
4. Fast Movement through the City: Ideals, Stereotypes and City Planning 47
Monica Hellström
5. Veiled Visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity 59
Sissel Undheim
Part 2 Literary Movement 73
6. Rolling Thunder: Movement, Violence and Narrative in the History of the
Late Roman Republic 75
Isak Hammar
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7. ‘A Shouting and Bustling on All Sides’ (Hor. Sat. 1.9.77–8): Everyday
Justice in the Streets of Republican Rome 89
Anthony Corbeill
8. Urban Flux: Varro’s Rome-in-progress 99
Diana Spencer
9. Augustan Literary Tours: Walking and Reading the City 111
Timothy M. O’Sullivan
Part 3 Processional Movement 123
10. Moving In and Moving Out: Ritual Movements between Rome and its
Suburbium 125
Kristine Iara
11. Augustus’ Triumphal and Triumph-like Returns 133
Carsten Hjort Lange
12. Rite of Passage: On Ceremonial Movements and Vicarious Memories
(Fourth Century ce) 145
Gitte Lønstrup Dal Santo
13. The Laetaniae Septiformes of Gregory I, S. Maria Maggiore and Early
Marian Cult in Rome 155
Margaret M. Andrews
14. Movement and the Hero: Following St Lawrence in Late Antique Rome 165
Michael Mulryan
Part 4 Movement and Urban Form 173
15. Towards a History of Mobility in Ancient Rome (300 bce to 100 ce) 175
Ray Laurence
16. ‘Ships are Seen Gliding Swiftly along the Sacred Tiber’: The River as an
Artery of Urban Movement and Development 187
Simon Malmberg
Contents vii
17. Monuments and Images of the Moving City 203
Anne-Marie Leander Touati
18. Mithraic Movement: Negotiating Topography and Space in Late Antique
Rome 225
Jonas Bjørnebye
Notes 237
Bibliography 321
List of Abbreviations 357
Index 359
List of Illustrations
Cover image: Drawing by Jonathan Westin. © Jonathan Westin.
Fig. 1.1. Denarius minted by Marcus Junius Brutus. British Museum, Reg.
No. 2002, 0102.4364 © The Trustees of the British Museum. 14
Fig. 3.1. Sestertius minted in 22/23 ce. British Museum, Reg. No. 6358 ©
The Trustees of the British Museum. 43
Fig. 5.1. Virginal topography and range. Map drawn by Margaret M. Andrews. 71
Fig. 7.1. Roman Forum during the late Republic. Map by Philip Stinson. 91
Fig. 8.1. Silver denarius minted 29–27 bce. R.6171 © The Trustees of the
British Museum. 103
Fig. 8.2. ‘Vestigij del Circo Massimo che fu cosi cognominato dalla sua
grandezza’, 1607–20 (Stefano Du Perac Parisino). British School at
Rome Library, Thomas Ashby collection, tapri-L611.D9.011. 109
Fig. 12.1. Damasian epigram in the Crypt of the Popes. © Archivio
Fotografico, Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Cristiana. 147
Fig. 12.2. Map of the holy sites, itinera ad sanctos and staircases in the San
Callisto catacomb (from Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, ‘Itinera ad sanctos’,
Fig. 2a). © Archivio Fotografico, Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia
Cristiana. 148
Fig. 13.1. Plan of Gregory’s laetania septiformis in 590 with hypothesized
routes of procession to S. Maria Maggiore. Map by Margaret M. Andrews. 156
Fig. 13.2. Plan of Gregory’s laetania septiformis in 603 with hypothesized
routes of procession to S. Maria Maggiore. Map by Margaret M. Andrews. 157
Fig. 13.3. Plan of S. Maria Maggiore and other Marian churches dedicated
in the late sixth or early seventh centuries. Map by Margaret M. Andrews. 163
Fig. 14.1. The Lawrentian churches of Rome. Map by Margaret M. Andrews. 166
Fig. 14.2. The Lawrentian churches in relation to S. Lorenzo fuori le mura.
Map by Margaret M. Andrews. 171
Fig. 15.1. Space as a keyword (from David Harvey, ‘Space as a Key Word’). 177
Fig. 15.2. Principal foci of the spatial turn. 178
Fig. 15.3. Integrating approaches to space and society (after Bob Jessop,
Neil Brenner and Martin Jones, ‘Theorizing Sociospatial Relations’). 179
Fig. 15.4. Application of the intersection of territory, place, scale and
networks to Ancient Rome. 186
Fig. 16.1. Plan of harbours at Rome. Map by Simon Malmberg. 188
Fig. 16.2. Plan of the harbour in Testaccio excavated in 1868–70 (from
Guglielmo Gatti, ‘L’arginatura’). 194
Fig. 16.3. Plan of harbours in the northern Campus Martius (from
Rodolfo Lanciani, Forma Urbis Romae, modified by Simon Malmberg). 198
List of Illustrations ix
Fig. 17.1. Trajan’s Column, east axis, scene 6. Photo: Anger, Neg.
D-DAI-Rom 91.150. 205
Fig. 17.2. Trajan’s Column, south axis, scene 4. Photo: Anger, Neg.
D-DAI-Rom 91.148. 205
Fig. 17.3. Column of Marcus Aurelius, view from the Via Flaminia (east
axis). Photo: Henrik Boman. 207
Fig. 17.4. Arch of the Argentarii, exterior view of west side of west pylon.
Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Veterus Arcus Augustorum Triumphis Insignes
(Rome, 1690), pl. 7. Source: http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/
vudl:38641. 210
Fig. 17.5. Severan Arch in the Forum, panel reliefs of column base. Photo:
Ron Reznick. 212
Fig. 17.6. Arch of Constantine, looking towards the Coliseum. Photo:
Fototeca dell’Unione Internazionale – American Academy in Rome. 214
Fig. 17.7. Arch of Constantine. Great Trajanic Frieze, panels showing the
emperor charging enemies. Photo: Ron Reznick. 215
Fig. 17.8 Great Trajanic Frieze, simplified sketch of the eight relief panels
reused on the Arch of Constantine, drawn by Marika Leander. 216–17
Fig. 17.9. Great Trajanic Frieze, fragment with emperor in the Villa
Borghese Pinciana. Photo: Faraglia, Neg. D-DAI-Rom 8436. 220
Fig. 17.10. Hypothetical reconstruction of the Great Trajanic Frieze.
Sketches of the slabs reused on the Arch of Constantine by Marika
Leander, Borghese fragments by Gudrun Anselm, Medici fragment by
Jesper Blid. 221
Fig. 17.11. Column Court, stone plan with scaled reconstruction of the
Great Trajanic Frieze. Map adapted from Packer, Forum of Trajan, vol. 2,
fol. 0, by Lars Karlsson, Jesper Blid and Anne-Marie Leander Touati. 222
Fig. 18.1. Topographical distribution of mithraea in late antique Rome.
Map by Margaret M. Andrews. 226