Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity: Remains and Representations of the Ancient City

549 Pages·2014·80.25 MB·English

by  Adam M. Kemezis

UrbanDreamsandRealitiesinAntiquity
Mnemosyne
supplements
history and archaeology
of classical antiquity
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HansvanWees(UniversityCollegeLondon)
AssociateEditors
JanPaulCrielaard(VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam)
BenetSalway(UniversityCollegeLondon)
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Urban Dreams and Realities
in Antiquity
RemainsandRepresentationsoftheAncientCity
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AdamM.Kemezis
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
ListofContributors x
Introduction 1
AdamM.Kemezis
part1
CityasSpacei:RemainsontheGround
1 InDefenseofArkadia:TheCityasaFortress 15
MatthewMaher
2 TheMundusofCaereandEarlyEtruscanUrbanization 46
FabioColivicchi
3 “FightingOveraShadow?”:HellenisticGreekCitiesand
Greco-RomanCitiesasForaandMediaforMulti-LevelSocial
Signaling 69
LuAnnWandsnider
4 ConstructinganOscanCityscape:PompeiiandtheEítuns
Inscriptions 99
TanyaK.Henderson
5 UnravelingtheRealityofa‘City’ontheDeccanPlateau 121
AlokaParasher-Sen
6 MonumentalisingtheEphemeralinAncientRome 144
StevenHijmans
vi contents
part2
CityasSpaceii:LandscapesinLiterature
7 FutureCityintheHeroicPast:Rome,RomansandRoman
LandscapesinAeneid6–8 165
EricJ.Kondratieff
8 ReadingtheCivicLandscapeofAugustanRome:Aeneid1.421–429
andtheBuildingProgramofAugustus 229
DarrylA.Phillips
9 ThePredatoryPalace:Seneca’sThyestesandtheArchitectureof
Tyranny 246
DanielB.Unruh
10 ImperialRomanCitiesasPlacesofMemoryinAugustine’s
Confessions 273
OwenM.Ewald
part3
CityasIdentityi:CulturesinStone
11 SacredExchange:TheReligiousInstitutionsofEmporiainthe
MediterraneanWorldoftheLaterIronAge 297
MeganDaniels
12 GreekPoleisintheNearEastandTheirParthianOverlords 328
JosefWiesehöfer
13 CivicIdentityinRomanOstia:SomeEvidencefromDedications
(Inaugurations) 347
ChristerBruun
14 ChariotRacinginHispaniaTarraconensis:UrbanRomanizationand
ProvincialIdentity 370
RaymondL.Capra
contents vii
part4
CityasIdentityii:CommunitiesonPaper
15 TheSeatofKingship:(Re)ConstructingtheCityinIsaiah24–27 395
IanDouglasWilson
16 RememberingPre-IsraeliteJerusaleminLatePersianYehud:
MnemonicPreferences,MemoriesandSocialImagination 413
EhudBenZvi
17 MemoryandtheGreekCityinStrabo’sGeography 438
EdwardDandrow
18 TheEkklēsiaofEarlyChrist-FollowersinAsiaMinorasthe
EschatologicalNewJerusalem:Counter-ImperialRhetoric? 455
RalphJ.Korner
19 FromKinshiptoState:TheFamilyandtheAncientCityin
Nineteenth-CenturyEthnology 500
EmilyVarto
Index 525

Acknowledgements
Theideafortheconferencethatresultedinthisbookwasoriginallynotmine,
but that of the conference’s co-organizer Margriet Haagsma, and my first
thanks must go to her for her invaluable co-operation and help at all stages
oftheprocess.SeveralothercolleaguesattheUniversityofAlbertaalsolent
criticalassistance:EhudBenZvisharedhisextensiveexperienceofconference
organizing and publication; Steven Hijmans provided much inspiration and
FrancisLandysuggestednotonlythenameoftheconference(andthebook),
butalsoandmoreimportantlythelocationofthepost-conferencedinner.
TristanEllenbergerwentwellbeyondthecallofdutythroughoutthecon-
ference, Melanie Marvin was indispensably helpful and competent through
the whole process, and Selina Stewart saved the French-language version of
theconferenceannouncementfromincoherence.TerenceCheesmanwaskind
enoughtodisplayandtalkaboutsomeofhisremarkablecollectionofancient
coins.Theconferencewouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutfundingfromthe
DepartmentofHistoryandClassicsandtheFacultyofArtsattheUniversityof
Alberta,aswellastheSocialSciencesandHumanitiesCouncilofCanada.That
fundingwouldinturnhavenevercometouswithoutKerriCalvertandhercol-
leaguesattheResearchServicesOffice.Andofcoursethebiggestdebtistothe
conferenceparticipantsthemselves,includingpanelchairsandthosespeakers
whosecontributionsarestillfeltinthevolumeeventhoughtheirpapersdonot
appear.
Inthesubsequenteditingandpublishingprocess,IamverygratefultoTessel
Jonquière,IrenevanRossumandtheircolleaguesatBrillPublicationsfortheir
patienceandassistance,andtotheanonymousrefereeforhisorhervaluable
suggestions. Colleagues who have generously lent their time to the editing
processincludeWilliBraun,KrisFletcher,HelenaFracchia,KellyMacFarlane,
DianaNgandJeremyRossiter,butaboveallPatrickHoganforhispainstaking
laborsinpreparingandindexingthefinalmanuscript.Thelastcolleagueand
friend to be thanked is my wife, Liz Czach, for her understanding, aid and
forgivenessasIperiodicallydissolvedinthecourseofvariouscrisesthatreally
didseemterriblyimportantatthetime.