Book contents
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- British School at Rome Studies
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Charts and Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Silent Roofing Revolution
- 3 Architectural Terracottas of Central Italy within Their Wider Mediterranean Context
- 4 The Connective Evidence for Early Roman Urbanism
- 5 Connecting Foundations and Roofs
- 6 Architectural Choices in Etruscan Sacred Areas
- 7 Connections in Death
- Index
- References
1 - Introduction
Building Connections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2022
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- British School at Rome Studies
- Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Charts and Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Silent Roofing Revolution
- 3 Architectural Terracottas of Central Italy within Their Wider Mediterranean Context
- 4 The Connective Evidence for Early Roman Urbanism
- 5 Connecting Foundations and Roofs
- 6 Architectural Choices in Etruscan Sacred Areas
- 7 Connections in Death
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter serves as an introduction for what follows by placing the volume’s approach into the wider context of the past and current study of central Italic architecture. It points out some of the issues that underlie and join the subsequent analyses, including why so many major building projects were undertaken in Etruria, Rome, and Latium in this period, who and what was moving to create them, and how the results blur the boundaries of what has traditionally been considered ‘Roman’. Fundamentally, it argues not only for the value of central Italic architecture as a source for regional social and economic histories, but also for its potential contribution to the study of ancient architecture as a whole.
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- Architecture in Ancient Central ItalyConnections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building, pp. 1 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022