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Author Gargola, Daniel J., author

Title The shape of the Roman order : the republic and its spaces / Daniel J. Gargola
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages)
Series Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
Contents Representing the res publica -- Rome, its magistrates, and its empire -- Rome and its Italy -- The augurs and their spaces -- Sciences of the center -- Laws, decrees, edicts, and their spaces
Summary "Rather than trying to understand the [Roman] Empire through the lens of modern organizations and institutions, Gargola looks at the idiosyncratic way the elite viewed the geographical world around them and how it fundamentally informed the way they ruled over their dominion. From what geometrical patterns they preferred to how they constructed their hierarchies in space, Gargola brings together a wide body of disparate materials to demonstrate how spatial orientation dictated action"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Space perception -- Rome -- History
Public spaces -- Rome -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Politics and government
Public spaces
Space perception
SUBJECT Rome -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115178
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469631837
1469631830
9781469631844
1469631849