The Architecture of the Roman World

Fikret Yegül is Distinguished Professor of Architecture, emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A member of the Sardis Archaeological Expedition since 1963, he is the author of Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity (1992), which won the Alice D. Hitchcok Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, and, with Diane Favro, Roman Architecture and Urbanism (2019), which received a PROSE award from the American Association of Publishers. Diane Favro is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles, former President and Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians, and a former Samuel H. Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Author of The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (1996), Favro pioneered the use of digital visualizations in Roman studies. She is co-author, with Fikret Yegül, of Roman Architecture and Urban Design (2019) and The Temple of Artemis at Sardis (2025).

• Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Republic: Architecture in Rome and Surroundings; 2. Republican Italy: Cities and Buildings; 3. Residential Architecture; 4. From Republic to Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus and the Julio-Claudians; 5. The Flavian Interlude: Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian; 6. Imperial Architecture in Rome from Trajan through the Antonines; 7. Architecture and Planning in Italy and the Western Provinces: From the Republic to the Empire; 8. Architecture and Planning in North Africa; 9. Greece under Roman Rule; 10. Asia Minor; 11. The Roman Near East; 12. Late Empire in Rome and the Provinces: From the Severans to Constantine; 13. Technology of Building; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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