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Urban Transformation Through Elite Benefaction of Late Republican to Early Imperial Ostia
Terrazas, Sebastian
Terrazas, Sebastian
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Although Ostia’s development of new public buildings and spaces, as well as the permanence of old Republican sites under the Augustan period is sometimes overlooked in place of Trajanic or Hadrianic transformations, the Augustan age in the political transition between the Roman Republic and the Principate left a clear mark on the urban landscape through acts of local and metropolitan benefaction. This transformational period of Ostia, between the Late Republic and the Early Empire will be viewed through the study of four monuments, or spaces, connected to the city’s local benefactors, their metropolitan counterparts, but which could also be connected in some manner to the city’s civic identity. Although there does not seem to be a masterplan which was developed in Rome and imposed on Ostia to direct its transformations, there seems to be a clear metropolitan interest in the city, which results in several works of metropolitan benefaction made in Ostia. Ostian local elites seem to have responded to this shift by collaborating with and participating in some of the new spaces by furnishing the city with woks of their own.
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Thesis (B.A. in Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2025.
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2025
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City planning, Rome (Empire), Ostia (Extinct city)
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Terrazas, Sebastian. "Urban Transformation Through Elite Benefaction of Late Republican to Early Imperial Ostia". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2025.