Penelope J E Davies
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1129350 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Penelope J E Davies |
| NOMBRES | Penelope J E |
| APELLIDO | Davies |
| FIRMA | DAVIES P J E |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterra…
The Biography of the Ancient City, Historiographies and Intellectual Traditions
Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterra…
Control through Construction
This essay takes its inspiration from the actions of local government in San Jose, Costa Rica, in the 1970s, which used the subterfuge of renovation to curtail or relocate activities it deemed illegal or unsavoury in the Plaza de la Cultura. Archaeological and literary evidence from diverse periods in Antiquity are consistent with the possibility that in the last century of the Republic and the Augustan age ( c. 133 bc – ad 14), authorities in Ro…
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a w…
Ghosts of Buildings Past
Practiced to differing degrees, adaptive reuse (conversion of an un(der)used building into one thatserves a new purpose) ranges from repurposing materials to transforming entire buildings. Architectsinvolved in such adaptations have to address a building’s essential quality or characteristic features,and may suppress them, acknowledge them, or even emphasize them by retaining traces of pastlife, and through these ‘ghosts’ host buildings become pa…
Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome
Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics (c.509–44 BCE). At the start of the period, architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the political system; by the end, buildings were so widely exploited and so rhetorically powerful that Cassius Dio cited abuse of visual culture among the reasons that propelled Julius Caesar's colleague…
A Republican Dilemma
In a well-known passage, the Greek historian Polybius, writing in the mid-second century BC, attributes Rome's success as a republic to a perfect balance of power between its constituent elements, army, senate and people ( Histories 6.11); and indeed, the Republic's long survival was an achievement worth explaining. On another note, over a century later, Livy remarked how Republican Rome, with its rambling street plan and miscellany of buildings,…
Pollution, propriety and urbanism in Republican Rome
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Hugh Last Fellowship
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Death and the Emperor
The role of monuments in the Roman imperial cult
Death and the Emperor
The Epigraphy of Death
The phoenix and the flames
This article argues that the Roman emperor Hadrian, known for his attention to the arts and, in particular, the architecture of Rome, chose a site for his Mausoleum with dynastic claims in mind. Sitting beside the Tiber on the Vatican Plain, the tomb is not only visible from afar, but is placed within a network of sightlines between pre-existing landmarks and buildings, both in the immediate vicinity and at some distance across the city. These si…
The Politics of Perpetuation
The frieze on Trajan's Column has long been criticized for requiring the visitor to circumambulate the column to read it. By considering the Column within the context of Roman funerary monuments, I argue that the frieze's spiraling motion was designed to manipulate the viewer into a reenactment of ancient funerary ritual as it is described in literary sources. Furthermore, the Column functioned as a viewing station; the helical staircase inside i…
The Politics of Perpetuation
The frieze on Trajan's Column has long been criticized for requiring the visitor to circumambulate the column to read it. By considering the Column within the context of Roman funerary monuments, I argue that the frieze's spiraling motion was designed to manipulate the viewer into a reenactment of ancient funerary ritual as it is described in literary sources. Furthermore, the Column functioned as a viewing station; the helical staircase inside i…
The Politics of Perpetuation
The frieze on Trajan's Column has long been criticized for requiring the visitor to circumambulate the column to read it. By considering the Column within the context of Roman funerary monuments, I argue that the frieze's spiraling motion was designed to manipulate the viewer into a reenactment of ancient funerary ritual as it is described in literary sources. Furthermore, the Column functioned as a viewing station; the helical staircase inside i…
The phoenix and the flames
This article argues that the Roman emperor Hadrian, known for his attention to the arts and, in particular, the architecture of Rome, chose a site for his Mausoleum with dynastic claims in mind. Sitting beside the Tiber on the Vatican Plain, the tomb is not only visible from afar, but is placed within a network of sightlines between pre-existing landmarks and buildings, both in the immediate vicinity and at some distance across the city. These si…
The Epigraphy of Death
Death and the Emperor
Death and the Emperor
The role of monuments in the Roman imperial cult
Hugh Last Fellowship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pollution, propriety and urbanism in Republican Rome
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome
Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics (c.509–44 BCE). At the start of the period, architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the political system; by the end, buildings were so widely exploited and so rhetorically powerful that Cassius Dio cited abuse of visual culture among the reasons that propelled Julius Caesar's colleague…
A Republican Dilemma
In a well-known passage, the Greek historian Polybius, writing in the mid-second century BC, attributes Rome's success as a republic to a perfect balance of power between its constituent elements, army, senate and people ( Histories 6.11); and indeed, the Republic's long survival was an achievement worth explaining. On another note, over a century later, Livy remarked how Republican Rome, with its rambling street plan and miscellany of buildings,…
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a w…
Ghosts of Buildings Past
Practiced to differing degrees, adaptive reuse (conversion of an un(der)used building into one thatserves a new purpose) ranges from repurposing materials to transforming entire buildings. Architectsinvolved in such adaptations have to address a building’s essential quality or characteristic features,and may suppress them, acknowledge them, or even emphasize them by retaining traces of pastlife, and through these ‘ghosts’ host buildings become pa…
Control through Construction
This essay takes its inspiration from the actions of local government in San Jose, Costa Rica, in the 1970s, which used the subterfuge of renovation to curtail or relocate activities it deemed illegal or unsavoury in the Plaza de la Cultura. Archaeological and literary evidence from diverse periods in Antiquity are consistent with the possibility that in the last century of the Republic and the Augustan age ( c. 133 bc – ad 14), authorities in Ro…
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterra…
The Biography of the Ancient City, Historiographies and Intellectual Traditions
Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterra…
Classical Antiquity Studies (11 obras) · History (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Ancient history (5 obras) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras)