The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre
This thoroughly updated and enlarged edition illuminates the epic story of the birth, early development, widespread flourishing and slow decline of that most typical Roman monument, the amphitheatre. This lucid and accessible work, lavishly illustrated with plans and photographs, breaks new ground with the incorporation of sociological, psychological, historical and even ecological material into the study of the amphitheatre. A more varied and wider ranging series of case studies provides the backbone of this new edition. They are included either because of their own intrinsic importance (Corinth, Pergamon, Trier, Chester), because they have…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-53136-4
- EAN: 9781317531364
- Produktnummer: 34367800
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 50'214 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 144 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 143 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 15 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
David Bomgardner has a wide experience of teaching and lecturing. He studied for a joint degree in Chemistry and Ancient Greek with a minor in Ancient History at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, before going on to complete a PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan (Thesis: An Analytical Study of Roman North African Amphitheaters, 1985). He has worked at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Keble Road, Oxford, undertaking atomic absorption spectroscopy analysis of ceramic materials. He was Head of Classics and Director of the Scholarship Programme at Elstree School, Woolhampton, Berks. During this time, he also taught courses in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology part-time in the Adult Studies Programme at Reading University and was a Swan Hellenic cruise lecturer for five years. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London. Since 2015 he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. He is the author of numerous articles and publications about the study of amphitheatres, their history and development: use, disuse and reuse.
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