Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination 9783110674736, 9783110674699

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Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination
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Covers thirteen battles or campaigns from the early Republic to the Late Empire. There is no doubt that Rome developed

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There is no doubt that Rome developed one of the most efficient and successful military systems of the ancient world. Th

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Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban

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