Latin 288: Transition to Empire: Find Books

A follow-up to the collaborative work Mapping Augustan Rome, this is a major new and thoroughly up-to-date study of the building program of Augustus in its historical context. The book contains German and English texts on facing pages throughout (the footnotes are not translated).

Two oversize color maps of Rome in the Augustan period with accompanying text and gazetteer of all the sites.

The first such dictionary since that of Platner and Ashby in 1929, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome defines and describes the known buildings and monuments, as well as the geographical and topographical features, of ancient Rome. It provides a concise history of each, with measurements, dates, and citations of significant ancient and modern sources.

This useful topographical dictionary was compiled by Samuel Ball Platner (1863-1921) of Western Reserve University in collaboration with Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), the third director of the British School of Archaeology at Rome. Sadly, Platner died before the work was completed, and Ashby eventually published it in 1929. The bulk of the work is an alphabetical list of the buildings, streets and geographical features in ancient Rome mentioned by ancient authors and/or discovered by more recent exploration and excavation of the ruins, with details about literary and historical references, and about the original and any surviving structure.