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UrbanDreamsandRealitiesinAntiquity Mnemosyne supplements history and archaeology of classical antiquity SeriesEditor HansvanWees(UniversityCollegeLondon) AssociateEditors JanPaulCrielaard(VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam) BenetSalway(UniversityCollegeLondon) volume 375 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/mns-haca Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity RemainsandRepresentationsoftheAncientCity Editedby AdamM.Kemezis leiden | boston LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Urbandreamsandrealitiesinantiquity:remainsandrepresentationsoftheancientcity/editedbyAdam Kemezis. pagescm.–(Mnemosyne,supplements.Historyandarchaeologyofclassicalantiquity,ISSN 0169-8958;Volume376) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-27735-9(hardback:alk.paper)–ISBN978-90-04-28389-3(e-book) 1.Publicspaces–Socialaspects.2.Sociology,Urban.3.Collectivememory.4.Groupidentity.5.City planning–Socialaspects–Greece–History.6.Cityplanning–Socialaspects–Rome–History.7.City planning–Socialaspects–MiddleEast–History.8.Citiesandtowns,Ancient–Greece–History.9.Citiesand towns–Rome–History.10.Citiesandtowns,Ancient–MiddleEast–History.I.Kemezis,AdamM.,1977-editor ofcompilation. HT153.U7242014 307.76009'01–dc23 2014036723 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characterscovering Latin,ipa,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities.Formore information,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn2352-8656 isbn978-90-04-27735-9(hardback) isbn978-90-04-28389-3(e-book) Copyright2015byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillNijhoffandHoteiPublishing. 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Contents Acknowledgements ix ListofContributors x Introduction 1 AdamM.Kemezis part1 CityasSpacei:RemainsontheGround 1 InDefenseofArkadia:TheCityasaFortress 15 MatthewMaher 2 TheMundusofCaereandEarlyEtruscanUrbanization 46 FabioColivicchi 3 “FightingOveraShadow?”:HellenisticGreekCitiesand Greco-RomanCitiesasForaandMediaforMulti-LevelSocial Signaling 69 LuAnnWandsnider 4 ConstructinganOscanCityscape:PompeiiandtheEítuns Inscriptions 99 TanyaK.Henderson 5 UnravelingtheRealityofa‘City’ontheDeccanPlateau 121 AlokaParasher-Sen 6 MonumentalisingtheEphemeralinAncientRome 144 StevenHijmans vi contents part2 CityasSpaceii:LandscapesinLiterature 7 FutureCityintheHeroicPast:Rome,RomansandRoman LandscapesinAeneid6–8 165 EricJ.Kondratieff 8 ReadingtheCivicLandscapeofAugustanRome:Aeneid1.421–429 andtheBuildingProgramofAugustus 229 DarrylA.Phillips 9 ThePredatoryPalace:Seneca’sThyestesandtheArchitectureof Tyranny 246 DanielB.Unruh 10 ImperialRomanCitiesasPlacesofMemoryinAugustine’s Confessions 273 OwenM.Ewald part3 CityasIdentityi:CulturesinStone 11 SacredExchange:TheReligiousInstitutionsofEmporiainthe MediterraneanWorldoftheLaterIronAge 297 MeganDaniels 12 GreekPoleisintheNearEastandTheirParthianOverlords 328 JosefWiesehöfer 13 CivicIdentityinRomanOstia:SomeEvidencefromDedications (Inaugurations) 347 ChristerBruun 14 ChariotRacinginHispaniaTarraconensis:UrbanRomanizationand ProvincialIdentity 370 RaymondL.Capra contents vii part4 CityasIdentityii:CommunitiesonPaper 15 TheSeatofKingship:(Re)ConstructingtheCityinIsaiah24–27 395 IanDouglasWilson 16 RememberingPre-IsraeliteJerusaleminLatePersianYehud: MnemonicPreferences,MemoriesandSocialImagination 413 EhudBenZvi 17 MemoryandtheGreekCityinStrabo’sGeography 438 EdwardDandrow 18 TheEkklēsiaofEarlyChrist-FollowersinAsiaMinorasthe EschatologicalNewJerusalem:Counter-ImperialRhetoric? 455 RalphJ.Korner 19 FromKinshiptoState:TheFamilyandtheAncientCityin Nineteenth-CenturyEthnology 500 EmilyVarto Index 525 Acknowledgements Theideafortheconferencethatresultedinthisbookwasoriginallynotmine, but that of the conference’s co-organizer Margriet Haagsma, and my first thanks must go to her for her invaluable co-operation and help at all stages oftheprocess.SeveralothercolleaguesattheUniversityofAlbertaalsolent criticalassistance:EhudBenZvisharedhisextensiveexperienceofconference organizing and publication; Steven Hijmans provided much inspiration and FrancisLandysuggestednotonlythenameoftheconference(andthebook), butalsoandmoreimportantlythelocationofthepost-conferencedinner. TristanEllenbergerwentwellbeyondthecallofdutythroughoutthecon- ference, Melanie Marvin was indispensably helpful and competent through the whole process, and Selina Stewart saved the French-language version of theconferenceannouncementfromincoherence.TerenceCheesmanwaskind enoughtodisplayandtalkaboutsomeofhisremarkablecollectionofancient coins.Theconferencewouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutfundingfromthe DepartmentofHistoryandClassicsandtheFacultyofArtsattheUniversityof Alberta,aswellastheSocialSciencesandHumanitiesCouncilofCanada.That fundingwouldinturnhavenevercometouswithoutKerriCalvertandhercol- leaguesattheResearchServicesOffice.Andofcoursethebiggestdebtistothe conferenceparticipantsthemselves,includingpanelchairsandthosespeakers whosecontributionsarestillfeltinthevolumeeventhoughtheirpapersdonot appear. Inthesubsequenteditingandpublishingprocess,IamverygratefultoTessel Jonquière,IrenevanRossumandtheircolleaguesatBrillPublicationsfortheir patienceandassistance,andtotheanonymousrefereeforhisorhervaluable suggestions. Colleagues who have generously lent their time to the editing processincludeWilliBraun,KrisFletcher,HelenaFracchia,KellyMacFarlane, DianaNgandJeremyRossiter,butaboveallPatrickHoganforhispainstaking laborsinpreparingandindexingthefinalmanuscript.Thelastcolleagueand friend to be thanked is my wife, Liz Czach, for her understanding, aid and forgivenessasIperiodicallydissolvedinthecourseofvariouscrisesthatreally didseemterriblyimportantatthetime.
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