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Roman Cities combines G. Michael Woloch’s translation of Les villes romaines, Pierre Grimal’s noted French work on Roman city planning, archeology, and urban history, with Woloch’s additional notes and descriptions of the cities mentioned by Grimal, as well as other important Roman cities. The book provides a brief history and description of more than a hundred Roman cities, an extensive master bibliography, and a comprehensive glossary. Roman Cities will interest both scholars and students of Roman history and archeology, city planning, urban geography, and the social sciences. The glossary and bibliography make the book of value to specialists pursuing a particular topic and to students, history buffs, and amateur archaeologists seeking to broaden their understanding of the Roman city planning methods that are such an integral part of our modern urban heritage.Roman Cities provides the first comprehensive study in English of major Roman cities, including an excellent coverage of the Roman legacy which was transmitted to medieval and modern trends in architecture and urban planning.

Identifies gods, goddesses, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fauns, satyrs, centaurs, and heroes, as well as legendary places, such as Olympus

"Tack vare myten har det heliga blivit mindre skräckinjagande; tack vare myten upphöjdes poesin till visdom." Till den grekiska mytologin hör alla de sagor och legender som frodades i de grekiskspråkiga länderna mellan 800-700-talet f.Kr. och 200-300-talet e.Kr. då hedendomen led mot sitt slut. Det är ett enormt vidsträckt fält, svårt att definiera och med starkt skiftande ursprung och karaktärer, men som har spelat och fortsätter att spela en viktig roll i vår andliga historia.

Todav a hoy, cuando han transcurrido tantos siglos desde su desaparici n, la civilizaci n romana es uno de los per odos hist ricos m s importantes, decisivos y estudiados. Esta obra pretende definir el estilo romano, el cual se percibe indistintamente en el arte militar, la arquitectura, la poes a, la moral, la pol tica o la legislaci n. Y as , a medida que el lector va adentr ndose en el texto, tambi n va descubriendo todas las constantes de ese esp ritu: el amor a la tierra, la pasi n por la justicia, la obsesi n por lo sobrenatural y el gusto por la vida, por mencionar s lo algunas. En otras palabras, todo lo que nos han legado Cicer n y Virgilio, los juristas y pol ticos de Roma y, a trav s de ellos, el resto de los romanos que vivieron aquel instante irrepetible de la historia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Even today, centuries after its fall, Roman civilization remains one of the most important, decisive, and studied periods in history. This work seeks to define the Roman style, which can be seen across military art, architecture, poetry, morality, politics, and law. As readers delve into the text, they uncover the enduring traits of that spirit: a love for the land, a passion for justice, a fascination with the supernatural, and a zest for life, to name just a few. In other words, everything we have inherited from Cicero and Virgil, from Rome's jurists and statesmen, and through them, from the rest of the Romans who lived that unrepeatable moment in history.