The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome

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The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses of context and space, the volume reveals both how movement adds to our understanding of ancient society, and how the movement of people and goods shaped urban development. Covering a wide range of people, places, sources, and times, the volume includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and late antique movement, triumphal processions of conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals and the everyday movements of individual strolls or household errands. By way of its longue durée, dense location and the variety of available sources, the city of ancient Rome offers a unique possibility to study movements as expressions of power, ritual, writing, communication, mentalities, trade, and – also as a result of a massed populace – violent outbreaks and attempts to keep order. The emerging picture is of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined. FC Half title Also available from Bloomsbury Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Ida Östenberg, Simon Malmberg and Jonas Bjørnebye Part 1 Elite Movement 1. Power Walks: Aristocratic Escorted Movements in Republican Rome Ida Östenberg 2. ‘Moving through Town’: Foreign Dignitaries in Rome in the Middle and Late Republic Richard Westall 3. Livia on the Move Lovisa Brännstedt 4. Fast Movement through the City: Ideals, Stereotypes and City Planning Monica Hellström 5. Veiled Visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity Sissel Undheim Part 2 Literary Movement 6. Rolling Thunder: Movement, Violence and Narrative in the History of the Late Roman Republic Isak Hammar 7. ‘A Shouting and Bustling on All Sides’ (Hor. Sat. 1.9.77–8): Everyday Justice in the Streets of Republican Rome Anthony Corbeill 8. Urban Flux: Varro’s Rome-in-progress Diana Spencer 9. Augustan Literary Tours: Walking and Reading the City Timothy M. O’Sullivan Part 3 Processional Movement 10. Moving In and Moving Out: Ritual Movements between Rome and its Suburbium Kristine Iara 11. Augustus’ Triumphal and Triumph-like Returns Carsten Hjort Lange 12. Rite of Passage: On Ceremonial Movements and Vicarious Memories (Fourth Century ce) Gitte Lønstrup Dal Santo 13. The Laetaniae Septiformes of Gregory I, S. Maria Maggiore and Early Marian Cult in Rome Margaret M. Andrews 14. Movement and the Hero: Following St Lawrence in Late Antique Rome Michael Mulryan Part 4 Movement and Urban Form 15. Towards a History of Mobility in Ancient Rome (300 bce to 100 ce) Ray Laurence 16. ‘Ships are Seen Gliding Swiftly along the Sacred Tiber’: The River as an Artery of Urban Movement and Development Simon Malmberg 17. Monuments and Images of the Moving City Anne-Marie Leander Touati 18. Mithraic Movement: Negotiating Topography and Space in Late Antique Rome Jonas Bjørnebye Notes Bibliography List of Abbreviations Index