Main entry:

Welch, Katherine E.

Title & Author:

The Roman amphitheatre : from its origins to the Colosseum / Katherine E. Welch.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Description:

xxii, 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.
Arena games during the Republic -- Origins of amphitheatre architecture -- Stone amphitheatres in the republican period -- The amphitheatre between Republic and Empire : monumentalization of the building type -- The Colosseum : canonization of the amphitheatre building type -- Reception of the amphitheatre in the Greek world in the early imperial period -- Appendix : Amphitheatres of republican date.

Summary:

"This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries B.C.; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (A.D. 86). She explores the social and political contexts of each of these phases in detail. The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre and its games in the Greek East, a part of the Empire that was, initially, deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0521809444 (HB)
9780521809443 (HB)
9780521744355
0521744350

Subject:

Amphitheaters Rome.
Architecture and society Rome.
Architecture et société Rome.
Amphitheaters.
Architecture and society.
Amphitheater
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Rom Kolosseum.
Rom.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253360
Call No.: NA313 .W45 2007
Status: Available