... of assimilation of Graeco-Roman architectural forms while retaining inherited local characteristics, both formal and functional. civil war climate Efqa spring hinterland Palmyra Syrian desert Temple of Bēl Wadi al ʽEid Wadi as Suraysir future research wall paintings Euphrates floods paved wadi trade...

...This chapter deals with the Nazis’ scenographic neo-Roman architecture and “ruin value theories.” Under Hitler’s close supervision, Albert Speer redesigned Berlin as the Nazi empire’s metropolitan stage. They envisioned a metropolis more imposing than Rome and anticipated a stage-in-ruins more...

... Walpurgisnacht. This chapter describes an organic link between the monuments of modern Germany, the distant history of the race, and its imperial future. antiquity Greco Roman architecture Nazi aristocracy Germanic Chaplin Charlie expansionism Nazi history Roman Hitler Adolf —Mein Kampf law Roman Nazism...

... Henri Venice amphitheatres ancient Jesuit order Pula amphitheatre Verona invention creativity in architecture Neoclassicism Theseus Vicenza Cesariano Cesare Giraud Jean Meursius Johannes Ovid antiquarianism archaeology truth-telling Roman architecture Greek architecture orders I have...

... Platonism Vespasian Emperor Guérard Nicholas architectural design architectural theory invention orders Roman architecture If Ionic temples were to be built for Juno, Diana, Father Liber and all other such deities, their intermediate position will be acknowledged because their principal...

... Chronograph of 354 Horrea Piperataria Rome Roma distributio principle Palladinus Vaventinus Vitruvius Maxentius spolia Templum Romae Temple of Venus and Roma Basilica Nova Basilica of Constantine architectural marbles architectural practice Late Roman architecture Tetrarchal Rome Much of what...

..., there is a scarcity of works that take either the buildings of the city of Rome or Roman architecture as their explicit subjects: even fewer treat the historic built environment. Although modern studies on the topography and buildings of ancient Rome can draw on an array of literary evidence, much of this information...

... appropriating the existing stylistic and thematic vocabularies of Hellenistic and Roman architecture. This book seeks to describe and explain the ways in which this architecture accommodated the lifestyle of educated leisure and an appreciation of the Roman landscape, and how, in doing so, it became a cultural...

... of Hellenistic and Roman architecture. It is argued that the architectural expression of luxury villas was instrumental in the construction of the character of the cultural phenomenon itself, and that it became an agent of Roman cultural identity. display Italy landscape Naples bay of negotium otium Roman...

... of the Mediterranean under Roman rule in making innovation possible, and the role of consumer demand in bringing it about. Innovation Technology Glass-Blowing Roman Economy Roman Architecture Metal-working Terra Sigillata Roman construction technology Standardization Arch (construction) One of the most eye...

... Shakespeare Munich Lachner Oedipus Melodrama Philhellenism Greco-Roman architecture On November 28, 1851, the Royal Court and National Theater of Munich staged a much-anticipated production of Sophocles’ Antigone in celebration of the fortieth birthday of King Maximilian II...

... Fachwerkbinder). This chapter will discuss these high-capacity constructions and their importance in Roman architecture, as well as try to explain why they were fully lost and forgotten in Late Antiquity. Alberti Leon Battista Apollodorus of Damascus Basilica Ulpia Rome Bernini Gian Lorenzo Danube...

... Pergamon Roman architecture Roman urbanism portrait statues consumer goods Archaeology as the study of material culture is a vital source for our understanding of Greek poleis in the Roman Empire. The object of this discipline is the physically tangible evidence of past societies...