Paving the past: Late Republican recollections in the Forum Romanum

Paving the past: Late Republican recollections in the Forum Romanum

The Forum was the center of Roman life. It witnessed a barrage of building, destruction and reuse from the seventh century BCE onwards. By around 80 BCE, patrons chose to renovate the Senate House and Comitium with a fresh paving of tufa blocks. Masons leveled many ruined altars and memorials...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bartels, Aaron David
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Roman Forum
Comitium
Republic
Senate
Curia
Cicero
Varro
Lapis Niger
lacus Curtius
Art of Memory
Coarelli
Boni
Sulla
Caesar
Rostra
Ad Herrenium
memory theory
site experience
chthonic
subterranean
archaeological memory
cultural continuity
Roman memorials
Roman architecture
Rome
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-29

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