The Moving City : Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome

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Introduction I. Elite Movement 1. Power Walks: Aristocratic Escorted Movements in Republican Rome, Ida Ostenberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 2. 'Moving Through Town': Foreign Dignitaries in Rome in the Middle and Late Republic, Richard Westall (Pontificia Universita Gregoriana / The Catholic University of America, Italy) 3. Livia on the Move, Lovisa Brannstedt (Lund University, Sweden) 4. Fast Movement through the City: Ideals, Stereotypes and City Planning, Monica Hellstrom (Swedish Institute in Rome, Italy) 5. Veiled Visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity, Sissel Undheim (University of Bergen, Norway) II. Literary Movement 6. Rolling Thunder: Movement, Violence and Narrative in the History of the Late Roman Republic, Isak Hammar (Lund University, Sweden) 7. 'A Shouting and Bustling on All Sides (Hor. Sat. 1.9.77-8): Everyday Justice in the Streets of Republican Rome, Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas, USA) 8. Urban flux: Varro's Rome-in-progress, Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham, Great Britain) 9. Augustan Literary Tours: Walking and Reading the City, Timothy M. O'Sullivan (Trinity University, USA) III. Processional Movement 10. Moving In and Moving Out: Pagan ritual movements between Rome and its Suburbium, Kristine Iara (American Academy in Rome, Italy) 11. Augustus' Triumphal and Triumph-like Returns, Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg University, Denmark) 12. Rites of Passage: On Ceremonial Movements and Vicarious Memories, Gitte Lonstrup Dal Santo (Danish Institute in Rome/Copenhagen, Denmark) 13. The Laetaniae Septiformes of Gregory I, S. Maria Maggiore and early Marian cult in Rome, Margaret M. Andrews (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 14. Movement and the Hero: Following St. Lawrence in Late Antique Rome, Michael Mulryan (University of Kent, Great Britain) IV. Movement and Urban Form 15. Towards a History of Mobility in Ancient Rome (300 BCE to 100 CE), Ray Laurence (University of Kent, Great Britain) 16. 'Ships are Seen Gliding Swiftly along the Sacred Tiber': The River as an Artery of Urban Movement and Development, Simon Malmberg (University of Bergen, Norway) 17. Monuments and Images of the Moving City, Anne-Marie Leander Touati (Lund University, Sweden) 18. Mithraic Movement: Negotiating Topography and Space in Late Antique Rome, Jonas Bjornebye (Norwegian Institute in Rome, Italy/Bardu, Norway) Index