Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy, and the Ancient World Tapa dura - 1976

Princeton: Princeton Univ Pr, 1976. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.242

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine with personal owner name and date in neat ink to front free endpaper; in a near fine price-clipped and faintly sunned and egde-worn jacket. Please see photos. in near fine dust-jacket. Quarto in orange-red illus jacket; 242 pages: illustrations; 26 cm; bibliographical references and index. Printed on high quality coated stock paper. Contents: Town and Rite: Rome and Romulus -- Romulus and Remus -- The Ritual Books -- The New Community -- Planning Techniques: Rational and Irrational -- The Choice of Site -- The Founder and the City -- Recording the Foundation -- City and Site -- How to Choose the Site: -- (i) the Theorists -- (ii) The Rites Observed -- Romulus Again -- Templum -- The Surveyors -- Haruspication -- Mundus -- Orthogonal Planning and the Surveyors -- The First Furrow -- Castrum -- Destruction Rites -- Square and Cross -- The Etruscans -- Terramare -- Marzabotto -- Spina -- Spina and Orghogonal Planning -- Myth and Rite --… Leer más