L’architecture de la fin de la République à Rome et dans le Latium. Expérimentations et modèles
From the end of the third century BC, Rome became Hellenized at an accelerated pace. The conjunction of the Etruscan-Italian and Greek-Eastern traditions produced an extraordinary phase of experimentation that saw the development of the synthetic language characteristic of Greco-Roman architecture. But while the new urban image of Rome was to become the ideal model for Roman cities until Augustus’ “re-foundation”, the material and symbolic gigantism of constructions in the Urbs could not be directly emulated in Italian cities, not even in those with well-developed urban traditions.