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one of the clear policies of Hadrian’s reign, conducted most intensively in North Africa and along the Danube. 13 This policy was motivated by a perceived need to develop the administrative network of the empire. The municipia that received their status under Hadrian show large variations in size
and Municipium Iasorum ). The bestowal of privileged statuses on settlements was one of the clear policies of Hadrian’s reign, conducted most intensively in North Africa and along the Danube. 13 This policy was motivated by a perceived need to develop the administrative network of the empire. The
settlement, which maintained their own regional characteristics. The short inter-site distances and deep regional hierarchies made the experience of urban life qualitatively very different for those living in northern Africa Proconsularis and those living in a large town close to the Numidian frontier, or on
inter-site distances and deep regional hierarchies made the experience of urban life qualitatively very different for those living in northern Africa Proconsularis and those living in a large town close to the Numidian frontier, or on the plains of Mauretania Tingitana. Analysis of the process of
To conclude, it is necessary to move from a detailed examination of everyday life and its material setting, towards a more abstract treatment. I do this with some regret, as if to leave a close engagement with the experience of late antique people is to lose some authenticity. But there are other
Street Life beyond Rome and Pompeii Streets were the setting for many everyday activities not expressed in the ostentatious forms taken by processions. These might be ordinary movements, such as deliveries and rubbish collections, or activities that were entirely static, including a few
officiales from one public building to another. Processions still occupied a central place in civic life, as they had in ancient cities since the earliest times, covering every facet of urban experience. They often constituted public events of great importance, as their records show, in depictions on public
construction of religious experience, gender categories and the rituals of social life. No ethnographic or culture-historical account is complete without a consideration of these matters. 16 Psychoactive substances are seen to be an ‘active element in the construction of religious experience’ because the
some of the earliest exhibitions of modern art in the United States. From 1921 to 1938, the Brummer Gallery featured two to eight exhibitions annually of living French and American artists. 1 In those years, Joseph devoted a whole floor to contemporary art, much of it shipped from Paris at great
of modernity, as opposed to Greek antiquity. This was a similar idea to that expressed by Guillaume Apollinaire the same year in his famous poem Zone , in which such objects are synonymous with renewal: “You’re fed up [of] living with [Greek and Roman] antiquity,” to which he opposed his famous