Claire Holleran & Amanda Claridge 
A Companion to the City of Rome [EPUB ebook] 

Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xix
Abbreviations xxi
List of Illustrations xxiii
List of Tables xxvii
List of Maps xxix
PART I Introductory 1
1 Source Material:
i Archaeological Sources 3
Maria Kneafsey
ii Written Sources 9
Richard Flower
iii The Marble Plans 13
Pier Luigi Tucci
iv The Epigraphic Record 20
Boris Rankov
v Coins 24
Andrew Burnett
2 Historical Overview: From City?]state to Christian Center 29
Christopher Smith
PART II The Urban Landscape 53
3 A City of Stories 55
T.P. Wiseman
4 Defining the City: The Boundaries of Rome 71
Penelope J. Goodman
5 The Development of the City: An Archaeological Perspective
i From its Origins to the Second Century BCE 93
Amanda Claridge
ii From 100 BCE to 600 CE 115
Amanda Claridge
PART III The People 137
6 The Population 139
Elio Lo Cascio
7 Social Structure and the plebs Romana 155
David Noy
8 The Army in Imperial Rome 173
Jon Coulston
PART IV The Urban Infrastructure 197
9 Rivers, Roads, and Ports 199
Candace M. Rice
10 Feeding Rome: The Grain Supply 219
Giovanni Geraci (translated Claire Holleran)
11 Water Supply and Sewers 247
Harry B. Evans
12 Streets and Street Life 263
J. Bert Lott
13 Urban Administration in Rome 279
John R. Patterson
PART V Living in Rome 297
14 Housing:
i The Development and Role of the Roman Aristocratic Domus 299
Hannah Platts
ii Insulae 317
Janet De Laine
15 The Imperial Thermae 325
Janet De Laine
16 Libraries and Literary Culture in Rome 343
Matthew Nicholls
PART VI Dying in Rome 363
17 Hazards of Life in Ancient Rome: Floods, Fires, Famines, Footpads, Filth, and Fevers 365
Gregory S. Aldrete
18 Funerary Practice in the City of Rome 383
Valerie M. Hope
19 Roman Cemeteries and Tombs 403
Barbara E. Borg
PART VII The Urban Economy 425
20 The Labor Market 427
Laurens E. Tacoma
21 Production in Rome 443
Dennis Kehoe
22 The Retail Trade 459
Claire Holleran
23 The Construction Industry 473
Janet De Laine
PART VIII Civic Life 491
24 Temples, Colleges, and Priesthoods 493
Jörg Rüpke
25 Entertainment 511
David Potter
26 Law and Lawcourts 527
Leanne Bablitz
27 The Roman Church 541
John Curran
28 Political Space 559
Elizabeth H. Pearson
PART IX The Roman Triumph 581
29 The Triumphal Procession 583
Geoffrey S. Sumi
30 Urban Commemoration: The Pompa Triumphalis in Rome 599
Diane Favro
PART X Receptions of Rome 619
31 Written Rome: Ancient Literary Responses 621
Diana Spencer
32 The Renaissance: The ‘Discovery’ of Ancient Rome 643
Brian A. Curran
33 Napoleonic Rome and ‘Roma Capitale’ 673
Pier Luigi Tucci
34 Mussolini and Rome 683
Borden Painter
35 The City of Ancient Rome on Screen 699
Monica S. Cyrino
Index 715
Topographical Index 731
Source Index 739

CLAIRE HOLLERAN is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She is co-editor of Demography and the Graeco-Roman World (with April Pudsey, 2011) and author of Shopping in Ancient Rome: the Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate (2012).
AMANDA CLARIDGE is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology at Royal Holloway University of London. Her recent publications include Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (2012) and Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: Classical manuscript illustrations (with Ingo Herklotz, 2012).