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The Moral Mirror of Roman Art

By: Rabun Taylor

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This interdisciplinary study explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society. When used as metaphors in Roman visual and literary discourses, mirrors had a strongly moral force, reflecting not random reality but rather a carefully filtered imagery with a didactic message. Focusing on examples found in mythical narrative, religious devotion, social interaction, and gender relations, Rabun Taylor demonstrates that reflections served as powerful symbols of personal change. Thus, in both art and literature, a reflection may be present during moments of a protagonist's inner or outer transformation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107689430

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9781107689435

Rome

An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

By: Rabun M. Taylor,Katherine Rinne,Spiro Kostof

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Rome

An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

By: Rabun M. Taylor,Katherine Rinne,Spiro Kostof

This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history. It examines the processes by which Rome's leaders have shaped its urban fabric by organizing space, planning infrastructure, designing ritual, controlling populations, and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107013992

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9781107013995

Public Needs and Private Pleasures

Water Distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome

By: Rabun M. Taylor

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Water Distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome

By: Rabun M. Taylor

A meticuously detailed investigation of Rome's practical solution to the problems of providing and distributing the city's water supply between the end of the Republic and Trajan's reign. Taylor's principal aims are to determine where and why aqueduct systems crossed the Tiber and to assess the function of the enigmatic Aqua Alsietia. An initial discussion of the technical and legal context for aqueduct planning is followed by a topographical inquiry into several specific aqueducts including the four earliest aqueduct river crossings: the Aqua Appia, Anio Velus, Aqua Marcia and the Aqua Virgo. Taylor also examines the expansion and organisation of water supply within the Transiberim, a heavily populated district of Rome to the west of the Tiber, and assesses its influence on Rome's wider urban policy.

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336

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L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER

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8882651002

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9788882651008

Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings

Restoration, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects and Engineers

By: J. Stanley Rabun

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Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings

Restoration, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects and Engineers

By: J. Stanley Rabun

Mit Hilfe der Statikanalyse wird der Zustand der Bausubstanz und Konstruktionssysteme eines Bauwerkes untersucht. Wenn Probleme am Bauwerk entstehen, führen Statiker eine solche Analyse durch, um die am besten geeigneten Korrekturmöglichkeiten zu bestimmen. Auch Architekten müssen über Grundkenntnisse in der Baustatik verfügen, um Gebäude entwerfen zu können, die ihre Funktion optimal erfüllen und um mit anderen Kollegen des Bauteams effektiv zusammenzuarbeiten. Außerdem müssen Architekten in der Lage sein, selbst eine Statikanalyse durchzuführen, wenn sie ein vorhandenes Gebäude umbauen wollen. Dieses Buch ist ein wichtiges Nachschlagewerk für jeden, der historische Bauten umbauen und verändern will. Es ist darüber hinaus ein nützlicher Leitfaden zu technischen Daten und Berechnungsmethoden, die den Architekten und Statikern damals zur Verfügung standen, als das Baumaterial oder Konstruktionssystem eingesetzt wurde. Mit einer Fülle praktischer Informationen bietet es die Grundlage für moderne Zertifizierung durch den Experten.

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510

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471315451

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9780471315452

Rome

An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

By: Rabun Taylor,Katherine Wentworth Rinne,Spiro Kostof

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Rome

An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

By: Rabun Taylor,Katherine Wentworth Rinne,Spiro Kostof

Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. This is a study of the urban processes by which Rome's people and leaders, both as custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped and conditioned its urban fabric by manipulating geography and organizing space; planning infrastructure; designing and presiding over mythmaking, ritual, and stagecraft; controlling resident and transient populations; and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316679373

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9781316679371

Roman Builders

A Study in Architectural Process

By: Rabun M. Taylor

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Roman Builders

A Study in Architectural Process

By: Rabun M. Taylor

Rabun Taylor describes how the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects were carried into practice. He uses the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Colosseum & the great temples of Baalbek as physical documents for their own building histories.

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0521803349

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9780521803342

Public Needs and Private Pleasures

Water Distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome

By: Rabun M. Taylor

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Water Distribution, the Tiber River and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome

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The Moral Mirror of Roman Art

The Moral Mirror of Roman Art

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Public Needs and Private Pleasures

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Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings

Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings

Rome

Rome

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Roman Builders

Public Needs and Private Pleasures

Public Needs and Private Pleasures

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