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Future Plans Digital Mapping Augustan Rome David Gilman Romano, Nick Stapp and Mark Davison are exploring plans for a digital version of Mapping Augustan Rome. The book would be available on-line in an interactive format with ancient literary texts, historical references, excavation plans, drawings, and photographs linked to the commentary on each building or monument. Visitors may also be able to utilize aspects of the map’s digital data. Frequent updates to the map would be possible and in this way the digital version of Mapping Augustan Rome will become a living project. A preview of the project, featuring the Circus Maximus entry (by E.A. Dumser, with a drawing realized by A.B. Gallia), is available online. Imaging Ancient Rome
The
Third Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture May
20th-23rd, 2004 at
the American Academy in Rome, the British School at Rome, and the
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom IMAGING ANCIENT ROME Documentation – Visualization
– Imagination The
city-scape of ancient Rome, in its urban topography and image, has been
analyzed, documented and debated since Antiquity.
Yet Rome's Stadtbild, at any
phase of the city’s ancient existence, remains tantalizingly beyond our grasp.
Despite a recent spate of admirable visualizations – models, maps,
movies – and comprehensive reference works, imaging the city-scape of Rome has
remained a difficult, and contentious, task.
Novel technologies of reconnaissance and presentation, as well as new
intellectual approaches generating both macroscopic and microscopic
reconstructions, promise fresh visions of the ancient city. What can we achieve
at this point? What bold
perspectives toward future accomplishments could shape our research today? In
which directions should we expand our inquiries? And where might we be best
served by re-directing our efforts? The
aim of this international symposium is to bring together leading Roman urbanists,
as well as representatives of the next generation, in order to discuss current
trends and future needs on topics ranging from modern visualizations of the Urbs
to Rome’s impact on the ancient imagination.
At the core of these discussions will be the quest for holistic images of
ancient Rome. Can we turn those elusive images into reality, and if so, how? How
do studies of specific urban features enhance and balance such over-arching
views? How might the latest digital technology be exploited to recover the
multi-layered history of ancient Rome? What rôles should literary texts and
material evidence play in light of these new developments?
What wisdom can be gleaned from earlier topographic studies and
approaches? The proceedings of this Third Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture will be published in the supplementary series of the Journal of Roman Archaeology. The conference is organized by Lothar Haselberger, University of Pennsylvania, and John Humphrey, of the Journal of Roman Archaeology. |
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