Etruscan and Roman Architecture

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Part One: Architecture In Italy Before The Roman Empire / Axel Boethius -- The Stone And The Bronze Ages -- The Early Iron Age -- Etruscan Architecture -- Introduction -- Techniques And Materials -- Temples -- The Early Temples: Types Of Plan And Superstructure - Plans - Podia - The Orders - Pediments And Roofs - Ornament - Liturgical Disposition -- Town Planning -- Domestic Architecture -- Roads And Bridges -- Tombs And Cemeteries -- Conclusion -- Etruscan Rome -- Rome During The Struggle For Supremacy In Italy (386 -about 200 B.c.) -- Hellenized Rome 'consuetudo Italica' -- Techniques And Materials In Public Buildings -- Techniques And Materials In Domestic Architecture -- Fora -- Basilicas -- Temples -- Ornament - Types Of Plan And Superstructure -- Town Planning -- Domestic Architecture -- Villas -- Baths, Theatres, And Other Public Buildings -- Baths And Palaestae - Stadia - Theatres -- Utilitarian Architecture -- Tombs And Cemeteries -- Conclusion --^ Part Two: Architecture In Rome And Italy From Augustus To The Mid Third Century / J.b. Ward-perkins -- Augustan Rome -- Architecture In Rome Under The Julio-claudian Emperors (a.d. 14-68) -- Tiberius (a.d. 14-37) -- Caligula (a.d. 37-41) -- Claudius (a.d. 41-54) -- Nero (a.d. 54-68) -- Materials And Methods: The Roman Architectural Revolution -- Architecture In Rome From Hadrian To Alexander Severus -- Hardian (a.d. 117-38) -- Antoninus Pius To Commodus (a.d. 138-235) -- The Seven Emperors (a.d. 193-235) -- Private Funerary Architecture In The Second Century -- Ostia -- The Early Imperial City -- Ostia In The Second And Third Centuries -- Italy Under The Early Empire -- Campania -- Northern Italy -- Domestic Architecture In Town And Country -- The Towns -- Suburbs And Countryside -- The Late Roman Town Houses Of Ostia -- Part Three: The Architecture Of The Roman Provinces / J.b. Ward-perkins -- The European Provinces -- The Iberian Peninsula -- Gaul, Britain, And The Germanies --^ Central And South-eastern Europe -- Greece -- Corinth -- Athens -- Other Roman Sites -- Asia Minor -- Building Materials And Techniques -- The Central Plateau -- The West Coastlands -- Pamphylia And Cilicia -- The Contribution Of Asia Minor To The Architecture Of The Empire -- The Architecture Of The Roman East -- Judaea: The Buildings Of Herod The Great -- Baalbek And The Lebanon -- North-west Syria -- Damascus -- Southern Syria: Petra And Decapolis -- The Hauran -- The Mesopotamian Frontier Lands: Dura-europos And Hatra -- Palmyra -- The North African Provinces -- Egypt -- Cyrenaica -- Tripolitania -- Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco -- Part Four: Late Pagan Architecture In Rome And In The Provinces / J.b. Ward-perkins -- Architecture In Rome From Maximin To Constantine -- The Architecture Of The Tetrachy In The Provinces -- Trier -- Thessalonike (salonica) -- Spalato (split) -- Piazza Armerina -- North Italy -- Constantinople. By Axel Boëthius [and] J. B. Ward-perkins. Rev. Ed. Published In 1978 Under Title: Etruscan And Early Roman Architecture. Bibliography: P. 587-601.

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Name in long format: Etruscan and Roman Architecture
ISBN-10: 0140560327
ISBN-13: 9780140560329
Book pages: 622
Book language: en
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Puffin
Dimensions: xxxiii, 622 p., 183 plates. illus. (incl. 1 col.), maps, plans. 27 cm.

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