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D. Favro then examined the use of these elements in the ancient city in The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (1996), theorizing that Augustus located monuments throughout Rome to convey certain imperial messages to those passing by. Space syntax, on the other hand, examines how motion in a ...
The Urban Image of Augustan Rome by Diane Favro (review) BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS This book provides a wealth of information about the history of Lesbos over a six-hundred year period. The author has mined the minutiae of the inscriptions to give as broad and deep a picture of life dur...
. Hispraetorianand urban cohorts provided physical security; his officials assured grain supplies; and he himself, with help from such aides as Agrippa, monumentalized Italian towns. The numerous Augustan structures in Italy and Rome (as he boasted, a city of brick before his time and ofmarble...
first, by the imposition of thePax Romana, which gave urban centres surer access to the surrounding rural areas and rural producers access in turn to convenient, centralized markets; second, by the sheer attractiveness of imported articles, which intensified efforts to increase the power to buy ...
Though he faced many challenges, some devastating, like the loss of three legions in the Teutoburger Wald of Germania, Augustus ruled Rome in virtual contrast to all administrations both before and after. Stability and general prosperity ruled the day. Even the urban poor in a vast, sprawling...
literary responses to its architectonics; I argue that these poets' reappropriations of public space for private purposes, particularly Ovid's critique of the Palatine iconography and urban topography, have encouraged modern scholars to overread triumphalist intentions into the Augustan building ...
The fresco cycles of the urban imperial residences clearly illustrate this change with regard to both the overall design of the wall decorations and the new conception of the architectural elements losing reality, what was criticised by Vitruvius (Vitr. arch. VII 5, 3-4) One of the clearest ...
The enhancement of the land and water viability, already started by the Etruscans, has to be referred to the Augustan project to unify the Italian peninsula: thetota Italiamentioned by thePrincepshimself in hisRes Gestae(Res Gestae, 25, 1–2114), after the conquer of the Alps and the submis...
Alternatively, thecitymaybe representedby certaintopographicaldetailsin an epitomeof its urbangeographythatstandsin a metonymicrelationshiptothecityas a whole.37In general,it hasto bebornein mindthatthelaudesRomae, as wellas thelaudesItaliae, canhaveeitheran optimisticor a pessimistictone,or evena ...