A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins
Edited by Dylan K. Rogers Edited by Claire J. Weiss
Hardback (Out of print)
(December 2021)
ISBN: 9781789692181
6.85 x 9.72 inches
Price: $69.00
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Contributions in honour of John J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia, offers new readings of archaeological data and art, illustrating the impact that one professor can have on the wider field of Roman art and archaeology through the continuing work of his students.
John J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, taught at the University of Virginia in the Department of Art from 1978 until his retirement in 2019. His legacy of research and pedagogy is explored in A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins. Professor Dobbins’ research in the field of Roman art and archaeology spans the geographical and chronological limits of the Roman Empire, from Pompeii to Syria, and Etruria to Spain. This volume demonstrates some of his wide-reaching interests, expressed through the research of his former graduate students. Several essays examine the city of Pompeii and cover the topics of masonry analysis, re-examinations of streets and drains, and analyses of the heating capacity of baths in Pompeii. Beyond Pompeii, the archaeological remains of bakeries are employed to elucidate labor specialization in the Late Roman period across the Mediterranean basin. Collaborations between Professor Dobbins and his former students are also explored, including a pioneering online numismatic database and close examination of sculpture and mosaics, including expressions of identity and patronage through case studies of the Ara Pacis and mosaics at Antioch-on-the-Orontes. A Quaint & Curious Volume not only demonstrates John Dobbins’ scholarly legacy, but also presents new readings of archaeological data and art, illustrating the impact that one professor can have on the wider field of Roman art and archaeology through the continuing work of his students.
Preface: J.J. Dobbins e il Foro di Pompei (Pier Giovanni Guzzo) Introduction: John Dobbins as Archaeologist, Teacher, and Mentor (Dylan K. Rogers and Claire J. Weiss) Masonry Analysis at Pompeii: The Maturation of a Stratigraphic Method (Eric Poehler) Disentangling the via del Foro Colonnade at Pompeii (Claire J. Weiss) Drain Outlets and the Pompeian Street: Evidence and Meaning (Janet S. Dunkelbarger) Heating the Stabian Baths at Pompeii (Ismini Miliaresis) Pistore Panem Petimus: Specialization in the Late-Roman Baking Industry (Jared Benton) The Fralin Numismatic Collection: Ten Years Later (Ethan Gruber) Dynamic Identity: Dynamis on the Ara Pacis Augustae (R. Benjamin Gorham) The Mosaics of the House of the Boat of Psyches: Reexamining Identity in Antioch (Elizabeth M. Molacek and Dylan K. Rogers), Preface: J.J. Dobbins e il Foro di Pompei (Pier Giovanni Guzzo Introduction: John Dobbins as Archaeologist, Teacher, and Mentor (Dylan K. Rogers and Claire J. Weiss Masonry Analysis at Pompeii: The Maturation of a Stratigraphic Method (Eric Poehler Disentangling the via del Foro Colonnade at Pompeii (Claire J. Weiss Drain Outlets and the Pompeian Street: Evidence and Meaning (Janet S. Dunkelbarger Heating the Stabian Baths at Pompeii (Ismini Miliaresis Pistore Panem Petimus: Specialization in the Late-Roman Baking Industry (Jared Benton The Fralin Numismatic Collection: Ten Years Later (Ethan Gruber Dynamic Identity: Dynamis on the Ara Pacis Augustae (R. Benjamin Gorham The Mosaics of the House of the Boat of Psyches: Reexamining Identity in Antioch (Elizabeth M. Molacek and Dylan K. Rogers)
Dylan K. Rogers, PhD (2015), University of Virginia, is Lecturer of Roman Art and Archaeology at UVa and previously served as the Assistant Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 2015-2019. He is the author of Water Culture in Roman Society (2018), and is the co-editor of the volumes, What’s New in Roman Greece? (2019) and The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens (2021). His research specialty is Roman fountains throughout the Roman Empire, investigating their impact on surrounding landscapes through the lens of sensory archaeology. He has also published on the topics of wall-painting in Pompeii, Roman mosaics, the siege of Athens by L. Cornelius Sulla in 86 BC, and archaeological archives. Rogers has worked on archaeological excavations in Pompeii, Sicily, Greece, and Turkey. ;
Claire J. Weiss, PhD (2018), University of Virginia, is a classical archaeologist whose research focuses on Roman urbanism, especially the sidewalks of ancient Roman cities and the relationship of these structures to urban social and economic organization. She has conducted archaeological field work and excavations in Pompeii since 2001, serving as the Assistant Director and Project Coordinator of the Via Consolare Project in Pompeii from 2006 to 2018, and now co-directing the Roman Colonial Urbanism Project.
- Edited by Dylan K. Rogers
- Edited by Claire J. Weiss
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