Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC - AD 700)

Unal Demirer

ISBN 10: 0974187348 / ISBN 13: 9780974187341

Published by Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2011

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paperback/dvd edition. 219 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC - AD 700)
• Publisher: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974187348
• ISBN 13: 9780974187341
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.91 kilograms

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Synopsis

The essays in this volume bring to bear the latest scholarly and technological trends in archaeological research to shed new light on the site of Pisidian Antioch in west-central Turkey. Drawing on 3-D virtual reality technology as well as archival material from a 1924 University of Michigan expedition to the site, the authors propose new reconstructions of the city's major excavated monuments. They also evaluate these monuments in relation to the social and political imperatives of Pisidian Antioch's hybrid culture - one that overlaid a Roman imperial colony on a Hellenistic Greek city in an Anatolian region long inhabited by Phrygians and Pisidians. The study of Pisidian Antioch is thus seen in the context of recent scholarship on Rome's colonial project in the eastern empire. An accompanying DVD presents a fly-over of the virtual city created to aid in the authors' research.

About the Author

Elaine K. Gazda is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the Department of the History of Art and Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Collections at the Kelsey Museum. She was Director of the Kelsey Museum from 1986 to 1997, Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology from 2006 to 2009, and head curator for the installation of the Kelsey's William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing in 2009