City of Encounters. Public Spaces and Social Interaction in Ancient Rome
06 Curatela
Caldelli Maria Letizia, Ricci Cecilia
The aim of this book is to identify and analyse the main internal
and external spaces that enabled and encouraged interaction
among individuals and groups in the ancient city of Rome. Such spaces
include places of worship, places of entertainment, bathhouses and
other places for personal care and recreation, guildhalls and places of
economic and political exchange. The main objective of each chapter
of the volume is to establish the topographical framework of spaces
and buildings, and the relations between spaces (and their furnishings)
and the individuals or groups who used them. Since this volume
sets out to explore mechanisms of social interaction, its emphasis between
spaces and people.1