Running Rome And Its Empire The Places Of Roman Governance Antonio Lopez Garcia by Antonio Lopez Garcia 9781003813965, 1003813968 instant download after payment.

This volume explores the transformation of public space and administrative activities in republican and imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary examination of the topography of power. Throughout the Roman world building projects created spaces for different civic purposes, such as hosting assemblies, holding senate meetings, the administration of justice, housing the public treasury, and the management of the city through different magistracies, offices, and even archives. These administrative spaces – both open and closed – characterised Roman life throughout the Republic and High Empire until the administrative and judicial transformations of the fourth century CE. This volume explores urban development and the dynamics of administrative expansion, linking them with some of the most recent archaeological discoveries. In doing so, it examines several facets of the transformation of Roman administration over this period, considering new approaches to and theories on the uses of public space and incorporating new work in Roman studies that focuses on the spatial needs of human users, rather than architectural style and design. This fascinating collection of essays is of interest to students and scholars working on Roman space and urbanism, Roman governance, and the running of the Roman Empire more broadly. This book is the result of an exchange of ideas among many researchers during the past few years, but it could have never been a reality without the support of many persons and funding from the European Research Council. My first acknowledge- ments are for Prof. Kaius Tuori for many reasons. To begin he has been a continu- ous support in my career and in my personal life from the day he offered to me the possibility of embarking on the best job opportunity I have experienced during my career. For his wise counsel in every step I made during the last four years, being a kind of bigger brother, sharing everything he can. I will never h