Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome

by Penelope J.E. Davies

Book Overview

Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics (c.509-44 BCE). At the start of the period, architectural commissions were carefully controlled by the political system; by the end, buildings were so widely exploited and so rhetorically powerful that Cassius Dio cited abuse of visual culture among the reasons that propelled Julius Caesar's colleagues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107476119
• ISBN13: 9781107476110
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.9"