Table Of ContentTHE IMPACT OF
THE ROMAN
EMPIRE ON
LANDSCAPES
Edited by
Marietta Horster
and Nikolas Hachler
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The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes
Impact of Empire
Roman Empire, C. 200 B.C.–A.D. 476
Edited by
Olivier Hekster
(Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Editorial Board
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The Impact of the Roman
Empire on Landscapes
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop
of the International Network Impact of Empire
(Mainz, June 12–15, 2019)
Edited by
Marietta Horster
Nikolas Hächler
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures and Tables x
Notes on Contributors xv
Part 1
Introducing Roman Landscapes
1 Le regard du vainqueur? 3
Nikolas Hächler and Marietta Horster
2 Heterogeneous Landscapes: From Theory to Impact 18
Marietta Horster
Part 2
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Them?
3 Redacta in formam provinciae: Überlegungen zu Rolle und Funktion der
viae publicae 47
Anne Kolb
4 The Impact of Roman Roads on Landscape and Space: The Case of
Republican Italy 69
Filippo Carlà-Uhink
5 Engaging Landscapes, Connecting Provinces: Milestones and the
Construction of Hispania at the Beginning of the Empire 92
Sergio España-Chamorro
6 The Impact of Roman Roads and Milestones on the Landscape of the
Iberian Peninsula 111
Camilla Campedelli
7 Les milliaires tardifs, une réception particulière de l’autorité impériale.
Un paysage particulier le long des voies de Lusitanie 131
Sabine Lefebvre
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8 Romanization and Beyond: Aqueducts and Their Multilayered Impact
on Political and Urban Landscapes in Roman Asia Minor 154
Saskia Kerschbaum
Part 3
Measuring the World à la romaine
9 Changing Landscapes Under Roman Impact: Interdisciplinary Research
in Northern Etruria 175
Günther Schörner
10 Des territoires Celtiques aux cités Romaines en Gaule
septentrionale 191
Xavier Deru et Rémi Auvertin
11 Adluvionum ea natura est, ut semper incerta possessio sit: Picturing and
Regulating Alluvial Lands in Nov. Theod. 20 206
Francesco Bono
12 Auxiliary Forts and Rural Economic Landscapes on the Northern
Frontier 223
Eli J.S. Weaverdyck
13 Imperial Cult Processions and Landscape in the Greek Cities of the
Roman Empire: The Case of the Demosthenia of Oenoanda 249
Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano
14 Post hos nostra terra est: Mapping the Late Roman Ecumene with the
Expositio totius mundi et gentium 263
Nikolas Hächler
Part 4
The Semantics of Roman Landscape Representations
15 Making and Unmaking Roman Landscapes in Cicero and Caesar 283
Isabel K. Köster
16 Paysages et otium au debut du Haut-Empire 297
Anne Gangloff
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Contents vii
17 The Landscape and Nature of the Cyclops in Campanian
Wall-Painting 315
Abigail Walker
18 Hercules, Cacus, and the Poetics of Drains in Aeneid 8 and
Propertius 4.9 339
Del A. Maticic
19 Empire and Italian Landscape in Statius: Silvae 4.3 and 4.5 353
Christopher M. Chinn
20 Empire and Landscape in the Tabula Peutingeriana 372
Silke Diederich
Index 399
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Acknowledgements
The meeting and workshop of the fourteenth international network Impact
of Empire took place at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz from
12–15 June 2019. It brought together some fifty scholars to discuss “The Impact
of Empire on Roman Landscapes”. The organisers, Marietta Horster and Laura
Kopp, and the participants were warmly welcomed by the managing chair of
the network, Olivier Hekster from Nijmegen.
We would like to thank all speakers of the workshop for their stimulating
presentations and critical comments with which they helped us all to become
more focused and more sensitive to the many facets of the ‘landscapes’ sub-
ject. We are greatly indebted to them as well as to the many students and col-
leagues from Mainz and abroad present at thef our-day workshop, who by their
thought-provoking questions, their observations and commentaries contrib-
uted to its success. Many of the papers presented at that workshop in Mainz
are included in this volume published in the IMEM-series by Brill. We wish
to thank the anonymous reviewer for her/his comments that have improved
many contributions and the overall coherence of the volume and we are
thankful for Lien Foubert’s (Nijmegen) and Giulia Moriconi’s (Brill) constant
support during the editing process.
The workshop was generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemein-
schaft and two suborganisations of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz: the ZIS (Zentrum für interkulturelle Studien) and the GICC (Gutenberg
International Conference Center). We received support for the selection pro-
cedure of papers as well as for the organisation of the conference by Olivier
Hekster (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) and Alexandra Busch ( Römisch-
Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz). We are grateful for this endorsement,
which helped to make the workshop a memorable and stimulating event.
The editors are grateful for the assistance of the following individuals for
their help during the organisation of the workshop and/or the editorial pro -
cess: Jonas Bre ßler, Andrea Görgen, Laura Kopp, Svenja Liedtke, Alexandro
Leto, Annika Stendebach.
Marietta Horster and Nikolas Hächler
March 2021
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