商品簡介
The author uses ancient literary accounts, material evidence, and legal and semantic developments to reexamine the history of Aventine Hill in the Roman Republic, one of the canonical seven hills, thought to be Rome's plebeian district. She challenges this idea and shows how the development of the Aventine as a region parallels the evolution of the urbs aeterna. She discusses the history of the Aventine in light of three different secessions to show that ancient authors did not present it as the uniquely plebeian area, then considers the lex Icilia de Aventino publicando law, literary references, archaeological evidence, and residency patterns to outline the regional diversity of the Aventine over the course of the republic and how local residents were from a range of the social and economic spectrum, ending with a chapter on premodern urban planning and development in terms of gang violence and neighborhood practices, to demonstrate that segregation of the disadvantaged could not have defined Rome, but that residency patterns reflected the society. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Lisa Marie Mignone is Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University.
