The maritime world of ancient Rome : proceedings of "The Maritime World of Ancient Rome" conference held at the American Academy in Rome, 27-29 March 2003
Format:
Book
Language:
English
Imprint:
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Published for the American Academy in Rome by the University of Michigan Press, 2008
9780472115815, 0472115812, 9780472115815 (hbk.), and 0472115812 (hbk.)
Description:
x, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Plenary address: Ports, ships, and power in the Roman world / Geoffrey Rickman -- Session 1. Ships and shipping in the Roman world. Roman shipbeds / David Blackman -- Cosa and deep sea exploration / Anna Marguerite McCann -- Roman shipbeds and Roman ships / Boris Rankov -- session 2. Maritime life and commerce. Rome's contributions to the development of piracy / Philip de Souza -- Recent archaeological survey at Portus / Simon Keay, Martin Millett, and Kristian Strutt -- Imports at Ostia in the Imperial Period and late antiquity: the amphora evidence from the DAI-AAR excavations / Archer Martin -- Testing the waters: the role of sounding weights in ancient Mediterranean navigation / John Peter Oleson -- Artifact distributions and wreck locations: the archaeology of Roman commerce / A.J. Parker -- Ochlos Nautikos: leisure culture and underclass discontent in the Roman maritime world / Nicholas K. Raub, Matthew J. Dillon, and T. Davina McClain -- session 3. Harbors of the Roman world. Roman structures in the sea: Sebastos, the Herodian harbor of Caesarea / Christopher J. Brandon -- Protection and conservation of ancient harbor structures in Tuscany: two examples on the coast of Grosseto / Pamela Gambogi -- Cosa's hydraulic concrete: towards a revised chronology / Elaine K. Gazda -- Response to "Cosa's hydraulic concrete: towards a revised chronology" / by E.K. Gazda -- The Roman maritime concrete study: a brief summary of fieldwork from 2002 to 2005 / Robert L. Hohlfelder, Chris Brandon, and J.P. Oleson -- Archaeological evidence for ships and harbor facilities at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt / Steven E. Sidebotham -- The expansion of triumphal imagery beyond Rome: imperial monuments at the harbors of Ostia and Lepcis Magna / Steven L. Tuck