The concept of the Augustan City in Hispania Citerior

Houten, Pieter

Abstract

Investigating the ancient Roman cities, we start out looking for the ideal type matching the predefined concept of the city. This ideal type is the result of a dialectic between Augustan sources, archaeological focus and nineteenth century concepts. The idea rose that the civic community is the self-governing community centred on a city in control of its hinterland, put simply; civitas = urbs + territorium. The urbs is a city following the Vitruvian model with a standard set of monuments needed in each city. Obviously a high standard to measure urbanism. The ideal type we are often looking for keeps us from understanding the many faces a Roman city could have had. Therefore, we should reiterate our
discussion and try to redefine the Roman city so the discussion on urbanization can continue without old ideas of what it is supposed to be. This paper investigates the applicability of these combined concepts for the eastern part of province of Hispania Citerior.

• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 18, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 27, 2021
• Pages: 39-62
• Series Title: Serie Monografías "Los Bañales"
• Book Title: Parva Oppida: Imagen, patrones e ideología del despegue monumental de las ciudades en la Tarraconense hispana (siglos I a. C.-I d. C.)
• Chapter Number: 3
• ISBN: 9788409227648
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5155976
• Publisher URL: https://www.academia.edu/44168792/Parua_oppida_Imagen_patrones_e_ideolog%C3%ADa_del_despegue_monumental_de_las_ciudades_en_la_Tarraconense_hispana_siglos_I_a_C_I_d_C_