Building a New Rome

The Roman Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC-300 AD)

edited by Unal Demirer, Elaine K. Gazda and Diana Y. Ng

Book cover: Building a New Rome

Extent: 220 pages

Publisher: Kelsey Museum Publications

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Kelsey Museum Publication

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2011)

ISBN: 9780974187341

Price: $35.00

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The essays in this volume bring to bear the latest scholarly and technological trends in archaeological research to shed light on the site of Pisidian Antioch in central Turkey. Drawing on 3-D virtual reality technology and archival material from a 1924 expedition, the authors propose new reconstructions of the city’s major excavated monuments.


The essays in this volume bring to bear the latest scholarly and technological trends in archaeological research to shed new light on the site of Pisidian Antioch in west-central Turkey. Drawing on 3-D virtual reality technology as well as archival material from a 1924 University of Michigan expedition to the site, the authors propose new reconstructions of the city’s major excavated monuments. They also evaluate these monuments in relation to the social and political imperatives of Pisidian Antioch’s hybrid culture – one that overlaid a Roman imperial colony on a Hellenistic Greek city in an Anatolian region long inhabited by Phrygians and Pisidians. The study of Pisidian Antioch is thus seen in the context of recent scholarship on Rome’s colonial project in the eastern empire. An accompanying DVD presents a fly-over of the virtual city created to aid in the authors’ research.

  • Edited by Unal Demirer
  • Edited by Elaine K. Gazda
  • Edited by Diana Y. Ng