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Doug Boin, Shrine at the Horrea (Granary) of Hortensius, 2016

This private shrine once existed within a busy granary in the port city of Ostia. According to the mosaic below the altar, Hortensius served as a…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Production Space, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

Jan Hazevoet, Detail of the Forum of Trajan., Wikimedia Commons, April 15 2007

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Society, Trajan, Urbanism

Doug Boin, Map of Ostia Showing Late Antique Domestic and Work-Place Shrines, 2016

This map of Ostia details seventeen identified household and work-place shrines, all datable to the third century, meant for private devotion. These…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Map, Mappa, Medieval, Ostia, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

Amphipolis, Forum of Trajan, Wikimedia Commons, June 20th 2014

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Society, Trajan, Urbanism

Doug Boin, Lulav, Ethrog, Menorah, and Shofar on the Corbel of the Ostia Synagogue, 2016

Close-Up of a corbel from the remaining structure of the Ostia synagogue, with a clearly discernible menorah

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Constantinople, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Hagia Eirene, Inscriptions, Istanbul, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Turkey, Urbanism

Amphipolis, The Forum of Trajan in Rome., Wikimedia Commons, June 20th 2014

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Public Spaces, roman empire, Rome, Society, Trajan, Urbanism

Carole Raddato, Remains of the Peristyle which defined the Forum of Nerva., Wikimedia Commons, August 28 2011

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Nerva, Peristyle, Public Spaces, roman empire, Society, Urbanism

Jebulon, A view of the Roman Forum., Wikimedia Commons, August 22nd 2013

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, Public Spaces, roman empire, Rome, Society, Urbanism

GentiBehramaj, Detail of the Byzantine Forum in Durres, Albania., Wikimedia Commons, August 25th 2015

Tags: Albania, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, Forums, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Urbanism

Wikimedia Commons, Hagia Eirene, Constantinople

Commissioned in 360 by Constantine, the Hagia Eirene could be said to physically represent the Christian side of his policy of toleration alongside…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Constantinople, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Hagia Eirene, Istanbul, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Turkey, Urbanism