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The traffic systems of Pompeii /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poehler, Eric (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Traffic engineering > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city) > History.
City and town life > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city) > History.
Streets > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city) > History.
Infrastructure (Economics) > Italy > Pompeii (Extinct city) > History.
Pompeii (Extinct city) > Social conditions.
Pompeii (Extinct city) > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Modern scholarship; the new myths of ancient traffic; the street surface and rut creation; vehicles, laws, and attitudes; control of urban streets; the shape of the book
  • The development of Pompeii's urban street network
  • Surfaces of the street
  • Architecture of the street
  • Evidence of traffic
  • The traffic systems of Pompeii
  • World of the mulio
  • Traffic in the Roman world
  • Conclusion.