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The Streets Of Roman Cities Have Received Surprisingly Little Attention Until Recently. Traditionally The Main Interest Archaeologists And Classicists Had In Streets Was In Tracing The Origins And Development Of The Orthogonal Layout Used In Roman Colonial Cities. Roman Urban Street Networks Is The First Volume To Sift Through The Ancient Literature To Determine How Authors Used The Latin Vocabulary For Streets, And Determine What That Tells Us About How The Romans Perceived Their Streets. Author Alan Kaiser Offers A Methodology For Describing The Role Of A Street Within The Broade Textual Evidence For Roman Perceptions Of Streets And Plazas -- Defining And Analyzing Street Networks In The Archaeological Record -- Pompeii -- Ostia -- Silchester -- Empúries -- Streets, Space, And Roman Urbanism. Alan Kaiser. Simultaneously Published In The Uk--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English