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1	The topographical transformation of archaic Rome : a new interpretation of architecture and geography in the early city Hopkins, John North 04 September 2015 (has links) Most studies of Roman architecture cover the third century BCE to the fourth century CE, a period of luxurious building projects like the Colosseum and Pantheon that remain relatively well documented in the archaeological and literary record. Yet Rome did not spring fully formed from the ground in the third century, its architecture relying entirely on precursors and precedents in buildings from far away times and places. In this study I fit remains of architecture from early Rome (ca. 650 to 450 BCE) into the cultural framework of the contemporaneous Mediterranean and try to assess how the changing cityscape effected both archaic Romans and later Roman architecture and topography. Because many studies of archaic Rome have attempted to fit archaeological remains with the literary record, and because this has created much controversy, I put the literary record to one side and focus on material remains in an attempt to see what they can reveal on their own. Archaic Rome Roman architecture Early Rome Ancient architecture Capitoline Temple Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Roman Forum Regia Comitium Curia Temple of Castor S. Omobono Roman art
2	Paving the past: Late Republican recollections in the Forum Romanum Bartels, Aaron David 03 September 2009 (has links) The Forum was the center of Roman life. It witnessed a barrage of building, destruction and reuse from the seventh century BCE onwards. By around 80 BCE, patrons chose to renovate the Senate House and Comitium with a fresh paving of tufa blocks. Masons leveled many ruined altars and memorials beneath the flooring. Yet paving also provided a means of saving some of Rome’s past. They isolated the Lapis Niger with black blocks, to keep the city’s sinking history in their present. Paving therefore became a technology of memory for recording past events and people. Yet how effective was the Lapis Niger as a memorial? Many modern scholars have romanced the site’s cultural continuity. However, in fifty years and after two Lapis Nigers, the Comitium had borne a disparity of monuments and functions. Rome’s historians could not agree on what lay beneath. Verrius Flaccus reports that the Lapis Niger ‘according to others’ might mark the site of Romulus’s apotheosis, his burial, the burial of his foster father Faustulus, or even his soldier, Hostius Hostilius (50.177). Nevertheless, modern archaeologists have found no tombs. Instead of trying to comprehend these legends, most scholars use them selectively to isolate a dictator, deity or date. We must instead understand why so many views of the Lapis Niger emerged in antiquity. Otherwise, like ancient antiquarians, we will re- identify sites without end. Recreating how these material and mental landscapes interacted and spawned new pasts tells us more about the Lapis Niger than any new attribution. / text Roman Forum Comitium Republic Senate Curia Cicero Varro Lapis Niger lacus Curtius Art of Memory Coarelli Boni Sulla Caesar Rostra Ad Herrenium memory theory site experience chthonic subterranean archaeological memory cultural continuity Roman memorials Roman architecture Rome

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The topographical transformation of archaic Rome : a new interpretation of architecture and geography in the early city

Paving the past: Late Republican recollections in the Forum Romanum