Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2061025098> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 57 of
57
with 100 items per page.
- W2061025098 endingPage "254" @default.
- W2061025098 startingPage "254" @default.
- W2061025098 abstract "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. To achieve his reading of the Roman town, he has invoked the comparative method of the anthropologists, and he examines first of all the 'Etruscan rite', a group of ceremonies by which all, or practically all, Roman towns were founded. The basic institutions of the town, its walls and gates, its central shrines and its forum are all of them part of a pattern to which the rituals and the myths that accompanied them provide clues. Like in other 'closed' societies, these rituals and myths served to create a secure home for the citizen of Rome and to make him feel part of his city and place it firmly in a knowable universe. 'It is refreshing to look at standard themes of the history of urban design from a nonrational point of view, to see surveyors as quasi priests and orthogonal planning as a sophisticated technique touched by divine mystery ...Rykwert's lasting worth will be to wrench us away from rationalist simplicities, and to make us face the fundamental disquietof the human spirit in its claim to a permanent place on the land' - Spiro Kostoff, Journal of the Society Architectural Historians." @default.
- W2061025098 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2061025098 creator A5062354444 @default.
- W2061025098 creator A5089300914 @default.
- W2061025098 date "1977-01-01" @default.
- W2061025098 modified "2023-09-25" @default.
- W2061025098 title "The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World" @default.
- W2061025098 doi "https://doi.org/10.2307/503193" @default.
- W2061025098 hasPublicationYear "1977" @default.
- W2061025098 type Work @default.
- W2061025098 sameAs 2061025098 @default.
- W2061025098 citedByCount "74" @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982013 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982014 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982015 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982016 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982017 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982018 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982019 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982020 @default.
- W2061025098 countsByYear W20610250982021 @default.
- W2061025098 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W2061025098 hasAuthorship W2061025098A5062354444 @default.
- W2061025098 hasAuthorship W2061025098A5089300914 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConcept C19165224 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConcept C195244886 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConcept C205649164 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConceptScore W2061025098C144024400 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConceptScore W2061025098C166957645 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConceptScore W2061025098C19165224 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConceptScore W2061025098C195244886 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConceptScore W2061025098C205649164 @default.
- W2061025098 hasConceptScore W2061025098C95457728 @default.
- W2061025098 hasIssue "2" @default.
- W2061025098 hasLocation W20610250981 @default.
- W2061025098 hasOpenAccess W2061025098 @default.
- W2061025098 hasPrimaryLocation W20610250981 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W10032203 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W1583500635 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W1910853999 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W1982537245 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W2045250152 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W2066826636 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W2301921252 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W4247348650 @default.
- W2061025098 hasRelatedWork W745467300 @default.
- W2061025098 hasVolume "81" @default.
- W2061025098 isParatext "false" @default.
- W2061025098 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W2061025098 magId "2061025098" @default.
- W2061025098 workType "article" @default.