The Roman Forum: Stones and Voices
The Roman Forum has continued to fascinate people for generations. Ever since the classic Grand Tour travelers, a visit is an essential part of the education of final-year humanities students.
Archaeologists, historians and classicists continue to argue about what the Roman Forum might have looked like. This richly illustrated book follows the evolution of recent archaeological discoveries and theories. No boring descriptions of archaeological remains, no lists of sizes and stone types. The information that emerges from the countless inscriptions is sometimes startling.
A selection of texts from classical literature, in the original and in translation, shows what happened at the Forum. What did Pliny go to listen to in the Basilica Iulia? What actually was the mysterious Black Stone? What does the apostle Peter have to do with the Forum? Have people actually discovered the tomb of Romulus in 2020? Did the Forum fall with the fall of the Roman Empire, or did it continue to live on?
With this new standard work, the authors fill the gaps in knowledge of one of the most famous archaeological sites from Roman antiquity. In this way, those stones get their voice again. So stones and votes…
Guido Cuyt is honorary chairman of the Antwerp Association for Roman Archeology (AVRA), honorary member of the Flemish Archaeological Council and former external employee at the Department of Archeology of KU Leuven. He has published numerous publications on archeology in Antwerp and Rome.
Michiel Verweij has a doctorate in classical languages. He works as a research assistant in the department of Old and Valuable Printed Works of the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and is also an employee of the KU Leuven, research unit Latin literature. His numerous publications include the book Ovidius. The story of a poet.
ISBN: 9789463713474
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