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Classical philology --- Philologie ancienne --- Rome --- Rome (Empire) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités

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The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process of remembering and forgetting stretching back to antiquity that took place throughout the former Roman world. This volume tackles this subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory, drawing upon the methodological and theoretical lenses of memory studies and resilience theory to view the way the Greco-Roman city lived and vanished for the generations that separate the present from antiquity.This book analyzes the different ways in which urban communities of the post-Antique world have tried to understand and relate to the ancient city on their own terms, examining it as a process of forgetting as well as remembering. Many aspects of the ancient city were let go as time passed, but those elements that survived, that were actively remembered, have shaped the many understandings of what it was. In order to do so, this volume assembles specialists in multiple fields to bring their perspectives to bear on the subject through eleven case studies that range from late Antiquity to the mid-twentieth century, and from the Iberian Peninsula to Iran. Through the examination of archaeological remains, changing urban layouts and chronicles, travel guides and pamphlets, they track how the ancient city was made useful or consigned to oblivion.

Social Science / Archaeology --- History / Ancient / Rome --- History --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Greece --- Rome (Empire)

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Roman monetary history has tended to focus on the study of Roman coinage but other assets regularly functioned as, or in place of, money. This book places coinage in its broader monetary context by also examining the role of bullion, financial instruments, and commodities such as grain and wine in making payments, facilitating exchange, measuring value and storing wealth. The use of such assets reduced the demand for coinage in some sectors of the economy and is a crucial factor in determining the impact of the large increase in the coin supply during the last century of the Republic. Money demand theory suggests that increased coin production led to further monetization, not per capita economic growth.

Money. Monetary policy --- Roman history --- Money --- Coinage --- Monetary policy --- Monnaie --- Politique monétaire --- History. --- Histoire --- Frappe --- Rome --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- History --- Economic conditions --- Coinage -- Rome -- History. --- Monetary policy -- Rome -- History . --- Money -- Rome -- History. --- Rome -- Economic conditions. --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Politique monétaire --- Conditions économiques --- Monetary management --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Geld. --- Monetaire politiek. --- Munten. --- Romeinse rijk. --- Civilisation gréco-romaine. (Collection) --- Antieke cultuur. (Reeks) --- Money - Rome - History --- Coinage - Rome - History --- Monetary policy - Rome - History --- Rome - Economic conditions

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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes explains Rome's position in the ancient world economy and offers perspective on Roman civilisation and its legacy for modern society.

Rome --- Asia --- Silk Road --- Trade routes --- History. --- Commerce --- History

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"The book provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote, implement and enforce sustainable development"--

Sustainable development --- Sustainable development. --- Government policy. --- Club of Rome.