Ivo Van Der Graaff

The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The fortifications of Pompeii stand as the ancient city's largest, oldest, and best preserved public monument. Over its 700-year history, Pompeii invested significant amounts of money, resources, and labor into (re)building, maintaining, and upgrading the walls. Each intervention on the fortifications marked a pivotal event of social and political change, signaling dramatic shifts in Pompeii's urban, social, and architectural framework. Although the defenses had a clear military role, their design, construction materials, and aesthetics reflect the political, social, and urban development of the city. Their fate was intertwined with that of Pompeii.

This study redefines Pompeii's fortifications as a central monument that physically and symbolically shaped the city. It considers the internal and external forces that morphed their appearance and traces how the fortifications served to foster a sense of community. The city wall emerges as a dynamic, ideologically freighted monument that was fundamental to the image and identity of Pompeii. The book is a unique narrative of the social and urban development of the city from foundation to the eruption of Vesuvius, through the lens of the public building most critical to its independence and survival.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429868412
• Artikelnr.: 55438892

Autorenporträt

Ivo van der Graaff is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He earned his MA in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Amsterdam and his PhD in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture. Dr. van der Graaff has participated in archaeological research projects in the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, and Italy. He co-directs and collaborates on projects examining the ancient Bay of Naples and Etruria.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
List of Color Plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Prolegomena to the City Walls of Pompeii
The city walls and the urbanization of Pompeii
Excavating the fortifications
2 Defense and the Genesis of the Community
The fortifications and the city
The Orthostat wall
The Altstadt as nucleus to Pompeii
Walls, gods, politics and the early community
3 A New Enceinte for a New City
Reconstructing the Samnite Circuit
Achieving an ornamental effect
Gates and towers in the first Samnite circuit
Upgrading the defenses
Emphasizing the transition through the fortifications
Reaching new heights: opus incertum and the next phase of construction
New elements to old gates
The towers
4 Establishing an Image for Samnite Pompeii
Calibrating the image of the expanding city
Building materials and the image of Pompeii
Samnite Pompeii defines its image
Fortifications and the urban network
The image of the high Samnite city
Patronage and display at the walls
Naming the fortifications
5 The Fortifications and the Roman Colony
The walls of the colony
Reconstructing the walls
The development of the gates
Change and continuity in the towers
The changing role of the fortifications
6 The Fortifications and Roman Pompeii
Adjusting the civic image
The significance of an entertainment district: the fortifications, the amphitheater, and the palaestra
Claiming public land
Fortifications and the tomb: dialogues in social order
City walls in the domestic sphere: reflections of urban and social ideals
7 The Fortifications of Pompeii in their Broader Context
Military tactics influences and design
The closest parallel to the Pompeian circuit
Masonry, fortifications, and the definition of a city
Polychrome masonry and city walls
Towers and the ornamentation of the city
Patronage and the concept of the city
8 Fortifications and Religion
The development of Venus Pompeiana
Religion, fortifications, and identity outside of Pompeii
Patronage, religion and power at the gates
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"The book provides the reader with the evidence for Pompeii's fortifications and the author is to be commended for undertaking the challenge of making this important feature accessible to advanced students ... there is an admirable amount of work in this book that provides a way into the subject of defences at Pompeii that - after the paved streets - were the city's largest public monument." - Ray Laurence, Macquarie University, Australia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019

"The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy is a valuable read for anyone interested in the history of ancient Italy or in that of fortification and urban planning and the architectural influences on culture and society." - A. A. Nofi, The NYMAS Review

"[T]he book demonstrates, in an articulated and sustained manner, the potential that walls hold for our broader understanding of an ancient town. This is one of the first book-length studies to take seriously the claim that circuit walls hold as much, if not more, civic importance as they do military. One hopes to see the volume inspire imitators." - Seth Bernard, University of Toronto, Canada, Journal of Roman Archaeology 2019

"[T]he book offers a thorough and up-to-date study of the architectural development of Pompeii's fortifications, while placing them in a wider Mediterranean context." - Saskia Stevens, BABESCH, 2021