The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World PDF
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Marble panel showing two men dressed in togas guiding a yoke of two oxen (bulls?) with four similarly dressed figures following. 3rd century A.D. Found at Aquilea. As the toga is hardly peasant’s working dress, this relief was taken to represent a ritual scene by its discoverer, in fact the drawing of the ‘sulcus primigenius’, even though the manner of wearing the toga (the heads are not covered) does not conform to the descriptions of the rite. ‘Notizie Scavi’, 1931, p. 472 ff.: ‘Archäologischer Anzeiger’ 1932, p. 454 Museo Civico, Aquilea JOSEPH RYKWERT The Idea of a Town The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World to A & A & A and to the memory of Michael Ayrton … è inutile stábilire se Zenobia sia da classificare tra le città felici o quelle infelici. Non è in queste due specie, che ha senso dividere le città, ma in altre due: quelle che continuano attraverso gli anni e le mutazioni a dare la loro forma ai desideri e quelle in cui i desideri o riescono a cancellare la città, o ne sono cancellati. Italo Calvino, Le Città Invisibili The Idea of a Town Contents Title Page Dedication Epigraph List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface to the Paper Edition Preface One Town and Rite: Rome and Romulus Romulus and Remus The Ritual Books The New Community Planning Techniques: Rational and Irrational The Choice of Site The Founder and the City Recording the Foundation Two City and Site How to Choose the Site: (i) The Theorists (ii) The Rites Observed Romulus again Templum The Surveyors Haruspication Mundus Orthogonal Planning and the Surveyors The First Furrow Castrum Destruction Rites Three Square and Cross The Etruscans Terramare Marzabotto Spina Spina and Orthogonal Planning Myth and Rite The Boundary of the First Rome Luperci and Lupercal Four Guardians of Centre, Guardians of Boundaries Roma Quadrata Vesta Boundary and Terminus Boundary and Centre: Mundus and Terminus Boundary of the Land and Boundary of the People Troy: Trojan Horse and Trojan Game Mundus and Pomoerium Boundary, Strength and Fertility The Boundary and the Gate The Guardian of the Gate The Riddle and the Maze Maze, Dance, City The Guilty Founder Five The Parallels Mandala The Mande Rites The Bororo Rites The Sioux The Tiwi Separation, Guilt and Reconciliation The Quartered Body as a Picture of the World The Hausa The Dogon The Everyday Microcosm The Great Plan Six The City as a Curable Disease: Ritual and Hysteria The First Builders The Sign for a Town Conclusion Index About the Author Copyright Illustrations The drawing of the sulcus primigenius 1 Topography of early Rome 2 Romulus and Remus 3 An augur 4 An augur 5 The sow with thirty piglets 6 The Templum of the Sky 7 Bronze cross 8 The surveyor’s gnomon in relation to a centuriated area 9 The face of the sundial divided up 10 A Roman ‘rose of the winds’ 11 The Roman agrimensor at work 12 The stele of the agrimensor Lucius Aebutius Faustus 13 A haruspex divining 14 A scene of liver divination 15 A divinatory liver 16 The examination of entrails and the council of diviners 17 A bronze hanging lamp 18 The entrail-demon Humbaba 19 Model of a divining liver 20 Etruscan model of liver 21 The Piacenza liver 22 Ager Subsicivus 23 The Severan Forma Urbis Romae 24 A public building 25 The top surfaces of Gracchan Cippi 26 The Templum of the Earth 27 The countryside between Montélimar and Orange 28 The marble map of the district between Pierrelatte and Donzère 29 The Map of Orange 30 ‘Hard Times on the Farm’ 31, 32 A ritual ploughing scene 33 The founder of the town performing the cutting of the sulcus 34 Coin of Berytus 35 Coin of Celsa 36 Coin of Caesarea Augusta 37 Coin of Caesarea Augusta 38 Carrying a plough 39 Pigorini’s restoration of Castellazzo di Fontanellato 40 Pigorini’s reconstruction of the timber caissons at Castione 41, 42 Excavations at Castellazzo di Fontanellato
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