The Roman Arch
Architecture, Politics, and the Commemoration of Victory in Rome (196 BCE to 43 CE)
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197815076
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages424 pages
- Size 242x167x31 mm
- Weight 807 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 99 black and white + 19 color plates 700
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Short description:
The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures, yet little attention has been paid to the first monuments constructed in the city of Rome. The Roman Arch examines the formative period of freestanding Roman arches, known as fornices, and the socio-political contexts that facilitated their beginnings during the early years of the Middle Republic. It assesses the critical period of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, and the arch's innovative role as a centerpiece of Roman imperial architecture, urbanism, and propaganda.
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The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity throughout the Roman Empire, little attention has been paid to the first monuments constructed in the city of Rome. The Roman Arch addresses this gap by focussing on the formative period of the freestanding Roman arches, known as fornices, and the socio-political contexts that facilitated their beginnings during the early years of the Middle Republic. Drawing on the fields of archaeology, classics, art history, anthropology, and the cognitive sciences, Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta uses the arch as a diagnostic tool to assess widespread changes in the functions and meanings of architecture in ancient Rome.
Kontokosta shows significant links between the first arches and key Roman generals who celebrated military victories in Spain at the end of the Second Punic War, arguing that the uniquely ad hoc system of granting Roman military honors for victories during this period of rapid territorial expansion explains why the arch can be viewed as an alternative form of victory monument for those who were not granted the official ceremony of the triumph in Rome.
By investigating the adoption of the freestanding arch as a symbol of military victory by Rome's first emperor, Augustus, Kontokosta demonstrates that collective Roman memories linking the fornix to the Middle Republic were critical to Augustan patronage. While the triumph was curtailed in the late first century BCE, the arch became an accessible proxy for celebrating military victory in Augustan Rome. Larger, more lavish Augustan arches expanded upon the old fornices of the Republic, creating a new and innovative imperial form incorporating triple bays, relief sculpture, and elaborate attic statuary. Hereafter, with their enduring ties to Rome's revered first emperor, these arches would be eagerly replicated throughout the Roman Empire.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: The Fornices of the Republic
The First Fornices
Spanish Victors and the Fornices of the Capitoline
The Fornix Fabianus: Monumentalizing Triumph and the Gens
Part Two: The Arches of Augustus
Arches and Augustan Monumenta
Augustus and the Triple-Bay Arch: Innovations and Archetypes
In Search of an Actian Arch
Innovation in Attic Statuary on Augustan Arches
Epilogue
