The Roman Amphitheatre -FTPB for Pre-Syndicate meeting only: From its Origins to the Colosseum - Softcover

Welch, Katherine E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521744350 ISBN 13: 9780521744355

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). 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 the games in the Greek East, a part of the Empire that was, initially, deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule.

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About the Author

Katherine E. Welch is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a scholar of Roman art and archaeology and has held fellowships at the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521744350
• ISBN 13: 9780521744355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 394