Rome, Ostia, Pompeii

Ray Laurence is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. In 2006 he won the 'Longman-History Today New Generation Prize for book most likely to inspire the young to study history' for his volume Pompeii The Living City.David J. Newsome was awarded his PhD in 2010 from the University of Birmingham. He won the BABESCH-Byvanck Award in 2008 for his innovative research on traffic and urban change at Pompeii. Both have published widely on the Roman city.

• Dedication Table of contents Preface Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction David J. Newsome: Making Movement Meaningful Part I: Articulating Movement and Space 1: Diana Spencer: Movement and the Linguistic Turn: Reading Varro s de Lingua Latina 2: Ray Laurence: Literature and the Spatial Turn: Movement and Space in Martial s Epigrams 3: Akkelies van Nes: Measuring spatial visibility, adjacency, permeability and degrees of street life in Pompeii 4: Eleanor Betts: Towards a Multisensory Experience of Movement in the City of Rome Part II: Movement in the Roman city: infrastructure and organisation 5: Jeremy Hartnett: The Power of Nuisances on the Roman Street 6: Steven Ellis: Pes dexter: Superstition and the state in the shaping of shop-fronts and street activity in the Roman world 7: Alan Kaiser: Cart Traffic Flow in Pompeii and Rome 8: Eric E. Poehler: Where to Park? Carts, Stables and the Economics of Transport in Pompeii 9: Hanna Stöger: The Spatial Organisation of the Movement Economy: The Analysis of Ostia s scholae Part III: Movement and the Metropolis 10: Claire Holleran: The Street Life of Ancient Rome 11: Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis: The City in Motion: Walking for transport and leisure in the city of Rome 12: David J. Newsome: Movement and Fora in Rome (the Late Republic to the first century CE) 13: Francesco Trifilò: Movement, gaming and the use of space in the forum 14: Diane Favro: Construction Traffic in Imperial Rome: Building the Arch of Septimius Severus 15: Simon Malmberg and Hans Bjur: Movement and urban development at two city gates in Rome: the Porta Esquilina and Porta Tiburtina Endpiece Ray Laurence: From Movement to Mobility: Future Directions Bibliography

This widely divergent collection of papers, contributed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, is highly specialised although, as all the Latin quotations are translated, also accessible to academics in such fields as Cultural Studies, Town Planning, Urban Geography and Sociology, from which it derives much of its specialist terminology. But it does reward persistence with a very vivid vision of the teeming streets of ancient Roman towns.