Worn out with walking: movement, age, and exertion in ancient Rome more[in prep. 2013] in J. Bjørnebye, S. Malmberg, and I. Ostenberg (eds.) The Moving City: Processions, Passages, and Promenades in Ancient Rome. Proceedings of the Colloquium at L'Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma and the Istituto di Norvegia in Roma, May 2011 (Leiden, Brill).
Philippus, active and strong, and famed for pleading causes, while returning from his employment about the eighth hour, and now of a great age, complained that the Carinae was too far from the forum.
(Hor. Ep. 1.7.46-9) An examination of pedestrian movement as it is associated with physical decline in old age. This paper sheds light on the marginalisation of the elderly from the cityscape and enables new interpretations of scale and displacement: transforming the concept of ‘movement’ from an undifferentiated flow, and asserting the nuances of speed, rhythm and (in)action in the Roman city. |
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Pedestrian Walkability (Architecture and public spaces), Geographies of Ageing, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), and Roman History
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