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BLACKWELL BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD A COMPANION TO the editors A COMPANION TO A COMPANION TO Roger B. Ulrich is Ralph Butterfield Professor roman Architecture of Classics at Dartmouth College, where he roman architecture EDITED BY Ulrich and quenemoen roman teaches Roman Archaeology and Latin and directs Dartmouth’s Rome Foreign Study roman Contributors to this volume: architecture Program in Italy. He is the author of The Roman Orator and the Sacred Stage: The Roman Templum E D I T E D B Y Roger B. Ulrich and Rostratum(1994) and Roman Woodworking James C. Anderson, jr., William Aylward, Jeffrey A. Becker, Caroline k. Quenemoen (2007). John R. Clarke, Penelope J.E. Davies, Hazel Dodge, James F.D. Frakes, Architecture Genevieve S. Gessert, Lynne C. Lancaster, Ray Laurence, A COMPANION TO Caroline K. Quenemoen is Professor in the Emanuel Mayer, Kathryn J. McDonnell, Inge Nielsen, Roman architecture is arguably the most Practice and Director of Fellowships and Caroline K. Quenemoen, Louise Revell, Ingrid D. Rowland, EDItED BY Roger b. Ulrich and enduring physical legacy of the classical world. Undergraduate Research at Rice University. John R. Senseney, Melanie Grunow Sobocinski, John W. Stamper, caroline k. quenemoen A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a She is the author of The House of Augustus and Tesse D. Stek, Rabun Taylor, Edmund V. Thomas, Roger B. Ulrich, selective overview of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly the Foundation of Empire (forthcoming) as well as Fikret K. Yegül, Mantha Zarmakoupi articles on the same subject. understanding of this rich field of study in recent decades. This volume draws on new archaeological discoveries and theoretical ALSO AVAILABLE IN THIS SERIES: approaches in order to provide an updated historical understanding of Roman architecture. Written by classical archaeologists and architectural historians who aim to understand Roman architecture as an integrated cultural practice, the Companion covers formal analysis, the design and construction process, the ancient and modern reception of Roman architecture and the dynamic interplay among aesthetics, social structure, politics, and geography in the production and use of Roman architecture. With cross-disciplinary sections covering technology, history, art, politics, and archaeology, this collection is an essential reference work for students and scholars of the ancient Roman world. A COMPANION TO ROMAN ARCHITECTURE BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises approxi- mately twenty-five to forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. 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Quenemoen This edition first published 2014 © 2014 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. The right of Roger B. Ulrich and Caroline K. Quenemoen to be identified as the authors of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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Quenemoen, Caroline K., editor of compilation. NA310.C58 2013 720.37–dc23 2013025418 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: View of the Roman amphitheater at Pula (ancient Pola), Croatia, dating to the first century. Source: Ulrich Cover design by Workhaus Set in 11/13.5pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India 1 2014 Contents List of Illustrations viii Contributors xiii Maps/General Images xviii Introduction 1 1. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE 6 Jeffrey A. Becker 2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in Republican Rome 27 Penelope J.E. Davies 3. Creating Imperial Architecture 45 Inge Nielsen 4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian 63 Caroline K. Quenemoen 5. The Severan Period 82 Edmund V. Thomas 6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy 106 Emanuel Mayer 7. Architect and Patron 127 James C. Anderson, jr. 8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building 140 John R. Senseney vi Contents 9. Materials and Techniques 157 Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich 10. Labor Force and Execution 193 Rabun Taylor 11. Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus 207 John W.