Военная история / Крепости,укрепления,форт.сооружения / The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy

Название: The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy
Автор: Ivo van der Graaff
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2019
Страниц: 314
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 102 MB

The fortifications of Pompeii stand as the ancient city’s largest, oldest, and best preserved public monument. Over its 700-year history, Pompeii invested significant amounts of money, resources, and labor into (re)building, maintaining, and upgrading the walls. Each intervention on the fortifications marked a pivotal event of social and political change, signaling dramatic shifts in Pompeii’s urban, social, and architectural framework. Although the defenses had a clear military role, their design, construction materials, and aesthetics reflect the political, social, and urban development of the city. Their fate was intertwined with that of Pompeii.