Ebook: Idea Of A Town: The Anthropology Of Urban Form In Rome, Italy, & The Ancient World

- London: Faber and Faber, 2013. - 252 p. - ISBN: 9780571308767.Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. In this famous, unusual and radical book which touches on such disparate themes as psychology and urban architecture, Joseph Rykwert has considered them as works of art. His starting point is the mythical, historical and ritual texts in which their foundation is recounted rather than the excavated remains, such texts having parallels not merely in ancient Greece but also further afield Mesopotamia, India and China.Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface to the Paper Edition
One Town and Rite: Rome and Romulus
Two City and Site
Three Square and Cross
Four Guardians of Centre, Guardians of Boundaries
Five The Parallels
Six The City as a Curable Disease: Ritual and Hysteria
Conclusion