Architecture in Ancient Central Italy takes studies of individual elements and sites as a starting point to reconstruct a much larger picture of architecture in western central Italy as an industry, and to position the result in space (in the Mediterranean world and beyond) and time (from the second millennium BC to Late Antiquity). This volume demonstrates that buildings in pre-Roman Italy have close connections with Bronze Age and Roman architecture, with practices in local and distant societies, and with the natural world and the cosmos. It also argues that buildings serve as windows into the minds and lives of those who made and used them, revealing the concerns and character of communities in early Etruria, Rome, and Latium. Architecture consequently emerges as a valuable historical source, and moreover a part of life that shaped society as much as reflected it.
Author(s): Charlotte R. Potts
Series: British School at Rome Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 224
City: Cambridge
Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Charts and Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Building Connections
2 The Silent Roofing Revolution
3 Architectural Terracottas of Central Italy within Their Wider Mediterranean Context
4 The Connective Evidence for Early Roman Urbanism: Terracottas and Architectural Accretion
5 Connecting Foundations and Roofs: The Satricum Sacellum and the Sant’Omobono Sanctuary
6 Architectural Choices in Etruscan Sacred Areas: Tarquinia in Its Mediterranean Setting
7 Connections in Death: Etruscan Tomb Architecture, c. 800–400 bc
Index
