A Stranger in Town: Finding the Way in an Ancient City

Ling, Roger

doi:10.1017/s0017383500028965

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“…Certainly, the authors of the slave collars appear to have assumed that the larger regions were a safer bet. The expectation appears to have been that the reader could be relied upon to find the region, and would then ask its residents for the specific slave-owner or location named on the collar (Ling, 1990; Bérenger, 2008). This system implies in turn that the people living in each region typically had a working knowledge of its major local families and landmarks, allowing them to identify the place or person specified.…”

Section: Living In the Regionsmentioning

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IN OMNIBUS REGIONIBUS? THE FOURTEEN REGIONS AND THE CITY OF ROME

Goodman¹

2020

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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Scholarship on the fourteen Augustan regions of Rome has tended to focus on their political and topographical significance. As a result, evidence for their social meaning and their impact on the mindsets and practices of the city's administrators and rulers has been under-exploited. This article seeks to address this lacuna. It begins by reviewing the history of Rome's regions and asking how and where the boundaries of the Augustan regions were recorded, before moving on to consider the impact of the regions on the Romans’ understanding and experiences of their city. This includes examining the evidence for bottom-up social identification with the regions, despite their top-down original creation. The paper also looks at the administrators who worked with the regions (regional magistrates and the food, water and fire services), arguing that the conceptual framework which the regions provided began to shape their working practices. Finally, it demonstrates the existence of a rhetoric of consistent provision across all fourteen regions, propagated especially by the emperors. The findings across all of these areas reveal that it is essential to take the regions and their impact into account when attempting to understand the topography of the city and the lives of its inhabitants.

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Section: Living In the Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

IN OMNIBUS REGIONIBUS? THE FOURTEEN REGIONS AND THE CITY OF ROME

Goodman¹

2020

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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“…Only a limited number of studies, in contrast, have considered the topic of pedestrian movement dynamics. Early research focused upon questioning what factors within an ancient urban landscape guided pedestrian activity (MacDonald, 1986;Ling, 1990). At Pompeii, research has identified and shown how specific urban features such as street-side benches and tabernae (shops) structured movement along the city's streets (Ellis, 2004;Hartnett, 2008).…”

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Visualising Ostia’s Processional Landscape Through a Multi-Layered Computational Approach: Case Study of the Cult of the Magna Mater

Crawford

2019

Open Archaeology

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Ostia, the ancient port of Rome, had a rich religious landscape. How processional rituals further contributed to this landscape, however, has seen little consideration. This is largely due to a lack of evidence that attests to the routes taken by processional rituals. The present study aims to address existing problems in studying processions by questioning what factors motivated processional movement routes. A novel computational approach that integrates GIS, urban network analysis, and agent-based modelling is introduced. This multi-layered approach is used to question how spectators served as attractors in the creation of a processional landscape using Ostia’s Campo della Magna Mater as a case study. The analysis of these results is subsequently used to gain new insight into how a greater processional landscape was created surrounding the sanctuary of the Magna Mater.

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“…It was these small districts that provided the social cohesion in the city. Larger streets, districts and gates at Rome usually had names, but since there were no signs or house numbers, that was not much of a help to a stranger (Dilke 1985: 103-107;Ling 1990a). Instead, the vici became very important for urban navigation, and were often used for directions.…”

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“…Apart from these ad hoc signboards, shops could also have proper ones. The Digest (50.16.245) speaks about 'pictures attached by chains or fi xed to a wall, or lamps similarly fi xed', and several brick plaques, fi gurative or geometric, have been found in Pompeii and Ostia, advertising different trades and crafts (Ling 1990a;Ling 1990b;Butterworth and Laurence 2005: 55, 110). These could surely work as small landmarks, guiding the traveller (Figs.…”

Section: Entering the Marble Planmentioning

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Finding Your Way in the Subura

Malmberg

2009

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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A Stranger in Town: Finding the Way in an Ancient City

Cited by 13 publications

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IN OMNIBUS REGIONIBUS? THE FOURTEEN REGIONS AND THE CITY OF ROME

IN OMNIBUS REGIONIBUS? THE FOURTEEN REGIONS AND THE CITY OF ROME

Visualising Ostia’s Processional Landscape Through a Multi-Layered Computational Approach: Case Study of the Cult of the Magna Mater

Finding Your Way in the Subura

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