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This book is the fruit of thoughts on Roman buildings that were conceived over many years and inspired by many architectural environments; accordingly, it has taken several forms and profited from numerous institutions and individuals. The idea for it grew out of a doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Oxford in 1989—93. I am grateful to my undergraduate tutor Ewen Bowie for encouraging me to take it up in the first place and for his perceptive criticisms, years later, of drafts of what is now the final chapter. My doctoral supervisor, Nicholas Purcell, patiently tolerated and even fuelled my reflections on a topic which raised many an eyebrow among classicists and which others would probably have urged me to abandon; both the thesis and early drafts of the book, which I composed at St. John’s College Oxford as graduate student and research fellow respectively, benefited from his breadth of knowledge and insights. My examiners John Onians and Simon Price kindly provided acute criticisms of the original thesis, yet still encouraged me to publish it as a single book instead of as isolated articles, and convinced Oxford University Press to publish it. I am particularly grateful to Jaś Elsner for reading and commenting on the final draft. Within OUP, there are many people to whom I owe thanks: above all, Hilary O’Shea for believing in the project from the start; Dorothy McCarthy for her immense patience in bringing it to fruition; Kathleen McLaughlin for overseeing the final stages with efficiency and magnanimity; Sue Tipping for her skill in setting the illustrations; and Jeff New and Kay Clement for their swift and thorough work in copy-editing and reading proofs.
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