《The Roman Amphitheatre》是2009年22月Cambridge University Press出版的圖書，作者是Katherine E. Welch。
基本介紹
- 書名：The Roman Amphitheatre
- 作者：Katherine E. Welch
- 出版社：Cambridge University Press
- ISBN：9780521744355
內容簡介
This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). She explores the social and political contexts of each of these phases in detail. The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre and the games in the Greek East, a part of the Empire that was, initially, deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule.
