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The Roman Forum
A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide

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  • Date Published: March 2015
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  • The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered by barbarians, aristocrats, citizens and priests over the past two millennia. Enough remains, however, for archaeologists to reconstruct its spectacular buildings and monuments. This richly illustrated volume provides an architectural history of the central section of the Roman Forum during the Empire (31 BCE–476 CE), from the Temple of Julius Caesar to the monuments on the slope of the Capitoline hill. Bringing together state-of-the-art technology in architectural illustration and the expertise of a prominent Roman archaeologist, this book offers a unique reconstruction of the Forum, providing architectural history, a summary of each building's excavation and research, scaled digital plans, elevations, and reconstructed aerial images that not only shed light on the Forum's history but vividly bring it to life. With this book, scholars, students, architects and artists will be able to visualize for the first time since antiquity the character, design and appearance of the famous heart of ancient Rome.

    • With over 300 illustrations, the majority of them in color, this is the most complete and visually striking treatment of the Forum to date
    • Authored by an expert team of illustrator and Roman archaeologist
    • The reconstructions of every monument in the Forum constitute the handsomest, most complete, most attractive series of Forum images ever done
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    • Winner, 2018 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America
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    • Date Published: March 2015
    • format: Adobe eBook Reader
    • isbn: 9781316055656
    • contains: 60 b/w illus. 247 colour illus.
    • availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Architecture in the Roman Forum during the Empire: A Brief History:
    1. The Augustan Reconstruction
    2. From the Tiberius to Phocas (14–608 CE)
    Part II. The Monuments:
    3. The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
    4. The Temple of Caesar (Aedes divi Iuli)
    5. The Basilica Aemilia
    6. The Curia
    7. The Arch of Septimius Severus
    8. The West Rostra
    9. The Temple of Concord
    10. The Temple of Vespasian
    11. The Tabularium
    12. Portico of the Dei Consentes
    13. The Temple of Saturn
    14. The Basilica Julia
    15. The Arch of Tiberius
    16. The Schola Xanthi
    17. The Diocletianic Honorary Columns
    18. The Temple of Castor and Pollux
    19. The Parthian Arch of Augustus
    20. The Temple of Vesta
    Part III. Conclusions.

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    The Roman Forum

    Gilbert J. Gorski, James E. Packer

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    Gilbert J. Gorski, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
    Gilbert J. Gorski is a licensed architect and the project designer for numerous buildings including the World Headquarters for the McDonald's Corporation in Oak Brook, IL, and the Oceanarium, a major addition to the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. In 1987 he was designated the Burnham Fellow by the Chicago Architectural Club and was awarded an associate fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. Since 1989 Gorski has headed his own firm specializing in design and illustration. His drawings and paintings have been included in numerous publications and exhibits on architecture and illustration. He was twice awarded the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize, the nation's highest singular honor in architectural illustration, by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. He is also the recipient of an Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement, awarded by the American Institute of Architects. He presently is an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame and holds the James A. and Louise F. Nolen Chair in Architecture.

    James E. Packer, Northwestern University, Illinois
    James E. Packer is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. He is the author of the three-volume The Forum of Trajan in Rome (1997); of numerous articles in journals, including the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, the Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma, the Maryland Historian, Natural History, Croniche Pompeiane, Technology and Culture, Curator, Inland Architect, Archeo, and Archaeology; and of articles in collections, including the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (1993–2000). He is the recipient of many grants, including those from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has excavated at Pompeii, in the Forum of Trajan (Rome), and in the Theater of Pompey (Rome). 'The Forum of Trajan' exhibition at the opening of the new Getty Museum in Los Angeles (1997) was based on Packer's work.

    Awards

    • Winner, 2018 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America
    • Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
    • Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Archaeology and Ancient History

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