Outputs (35)

Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (in press). Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception. Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 10(1), 131-146

This article compares how the theatrical architectural spaces of Francesco Guitti at Parma and Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Rome used classical traditions of spectacle to satisfy contemporary sensationalist demands. Guitti’s stage machinery devised after... Read More about Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception.

Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (in press). Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome. Antichthon, 58,

This paper discusses two imperial Roman literary descriptions of architectural space (Luc. 10.111-135 and Stat. Silv. 4.2) as responses to the real architectural space of imperial palatial complexes in Rome, Nero’s Golden House and Domitian’s Palatin... Read More about Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome.

Green shoots: Architectural transfer and sustainability in the architecture of the Roman provinces (2023)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2023). Green shoots: Architectural transfer and sustainability in the architecture of the Roman provinces. In N. Mugnai (Ed.), Architectures of the Roman World (61-83). Oxford: Oxbow Books

Seasonally Adaptive Design in Roman Public Architecture and Urban Space (2021)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2021). Seasonally Adaptive Design in Roman Public Architecture and Urban Space. In A. Lichtenberger, & R. Raja (Eds.), The Archaeology of Seasonality (279-302). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers

Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque (2020)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (in press). Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque. In K. Skelton (Ed.), Early modern spaces in motion : design, experience and rhetoric (163-188). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463725811_ch06

The Materiality of Text - Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity (2019)
Book
Petrovic, A., Petrovic, I., & Thomas, E. (Eds.). (2019). The Materiality of Text - Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity. Brill Academic Publishers

Plato's Timaeus and the Foundations of Medieval and Renaissance Thought: Philosophy, Science and Art (2019)
Book
Philosophy, Science and Art. Brill Academic Publishers

Performance Space (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2017). Performance Space. In W. A. Johnson, & D. S. Richter (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the Second Sophistic (181-201). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.15

This chapter explores how public speakers of the second and third centuries ce, accustomed to extravagant physical demonstrations of their art, exploited the architectural spaces where they performed. Theaters, temples, and smaller roofed assembly bu... Read More about Performance Space.

Historic Towns Atlas: Winchester (2017)
Book
Biddle, M., Clayre, B., Keene, D., Morris, F., & Thomas, E. (2017). Historic Towns Atlas: Winchester. The Historic Towns Trust and the Winchester Excavations Committee

Urban Geographies of Human-Animal Relations in Classical Antiquity (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2017). Urban Geographies of Human-Animal Relations in Classical Antiquity. In T. Foegen, & E. Thomas (Eds.), Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (339-368). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623-014

Understanding of the urban space of ancient cities has been subject to an anthropocentric bias with public and private space considered almost exclusively in terms of interactions between its human inhabitants. Yet, for example, even the grandiose Ho... Read More about Urban Geographies of Human-Animal Relations in Classical Antiquity.

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. (2017)
Book
Foegen, T., & Thomas, E. (Eds.). (2017). Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623

The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belo... Read More about Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity..

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Foegen, T., & Thomas, E. (2017). Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Introduction. In T. Foegen, & E. Thomas (Eds.), Interactions between animals and humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (1-18). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623-001

The Theatres of Gaius Curio and the Evolution of the Baroque (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (in press). The Theatres of Gaius Curio and the Evolution of the Baroque. In P. Fane-Saunders (Ed.), Architecture and Text. Cambridge Universuty Press

The Cult Statues of the Pantheon (2017)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2017). The Cult Statues of the Pantheon. The Journal of Roman Studies, 107, 146-212. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435817000314

This article reconsiders the possible statuary of the Pantheon in Rome, both in its original Augustan form and in its later phases. It argues that the so-called ‘Algiers Relief’ has wrongly been connected with the Temple of Mars Ultor and is in fact... Read More about The Cult Statues of the Pantheon.

Roman Architecture as Art? (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2015). Roman Architecture as Art?. In B. Borg (Ed.), A Companion to Roman Art (344-364). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118886205.ch18

The most influential English-language authority on Roman architecture in the last hundred years consistently emphasized how Roman builders were preoccupied above all with practical solutions to practical problems. The traditional focus on exterior or... Read More about Roman Architecture as Art?.

The beauties of architecture. (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2015). The beauties of architecture. In P. Destrée, & P. Murray (Eds.), A companion to ancient aesthetics (274-290). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119009795.ch18

This chapter starts by considering notions of architectural beauty in Flavian Rome. It explores the aesthetic criteria attested by Vitruvius, their roots in Greek Hellenistic theory, and their legacy for later architectural aesthetics, but also highl... Read More about The beauties of architecture..

On the Sublime in architecture (2014)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2014). On the Sublime in architecture. In J. Elsner, & M. Meyer (Eds.), Art and rhetoric in Roman culture (37-88). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511732317.004

The Severan Period (2013)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2013). The Severan Period. In R. Ulrich, & C. Quenemoen (Eds.), A companion to Roman architecture (82-105). Wiley

Translating Roman architecture into Greek regional identities (2013)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2013). Translating Roman architecture into Greek regional identities. In P. Schubert (Ed.), Les Grecs héritiers des Romains : huit exposés suivis de discussions : Vandoeuvres - Genève, 27-31 août 2012 (147-202). Fondation Hardt

Chiasmus in Art and Text (2013)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2013). Chiasmus in Art and Text. Greece and Rome, 60(01), 50-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0017383512000265

Sixty years ago, on 25 April 1953, probably the most influential scientific article of the twentieth century appeared. Its uninviting title, ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’, concealed the revolutionary... Read More about Chiasmus in Art and Text.

Cities and Gods: Religious Space in Transition (2013)
Conference Proceeding
(2013). Cities and Gods: Religious Space in Transition. In T. Kaizer, A. Leone, E. Thomas, & R. Witcher (Eds.), Cities and gods : religious space in transition (1-4)

Introduction: Religious Architecture in the Roman Empire, East and West (2013)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2013). Introduction: Religious Architecture in the Roman Empire, East and West. In T. Kaizer, A. Leone, E. Thomas, & R. Witcher (Eds.), Cities and gods : religious space in transition (7-8). Peeters Publishers

Water and the display of power in Augustan Rome: the so-called 'Villa Claudia' at Anguillara Sabazia (2012)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2012). Water and the display of power in Augustan Rome: the so-called 'Villa Claudia' at Anguillara Sabazia. Water History, 4(1), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-012-0055-x

This article re-considers the architecture of the Roman villa site at Anguillara Sabazia (Lazio (RM), Italy). It is argued that the villa should be dated to the Augustan period, rather than the late Republic, and that its elaborate ornamental water f... Read More about Water and the display of power in Augustan Rome: the so-called 'Villa Claudia' at Anguillara Sabazia.

"Nero's Tomb" and the Crisis of the Third Century: Roman Sarcophagi as Public and Private Monuments (2012)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2012). "Nero's Tomb" and the Crisis of the Third Century: Roman Sarcophagi as Public and Private Monuments. Res (Cambridge, Mass.), 61/62 : Spring/Autumn 2012(Sarcophagi), 132-151. https://doi.org/10.1086/resvn1ms23647825

‘Houses of the dead’? Columnar sarcophagi as ‘micro-architecture’ (2011)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2011). ‘Houses of the dead’? Columnar sarcophagi as ‘micro-architecture’. In J. Elsner, & J. Huskinson (Eds.), Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi (387-435). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216783.387

Architecture (2010)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2010). Architecture. In A. Barchiesi, & W. Scheidel (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (838-858). Oxford University Press

Atrium', 'Palace', 'Portico', 'Forum (2010)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2010). Atrium', 'Palace', 'Portico', 'Forum. In A. Grafton, G. Most, & S. Settis (Eds.), The Harvard Companion to the Classical Tradition. Harvard University Press

Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age (2007)
Book
Thomas, E. (2007). Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age. Oxford University Press

The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of late... Read More about Monumentality and the Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age.

Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium between reality and fantasy (2007)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2007). Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium between reality and fantasy. In S. Swain, S. Harrison, & J. Elsner (Eds.), Severan culture (327-367). Cambridge University Press

The Septizodium in Rome is here interpreted metaphorically as a statement of Septimius Severus's African identity, designed to greet his return from Africa in 203. A re-interpretation of sixteenth-century drawings and the Severan marble plan suggests... Read More about Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium between reality and fantasy.

Winchester historic wall map : [around the year 1800] (2006)
Digital Artefact
Biddle, M., Keene, D., & Thomas, E. (2006). Winchester historic wall map : [around the year 1800]. [[Media unknown]]

From the Pantheon of the Gods to the Pantheon of Rome (2004)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2004). From the Pantheon of the Gods to the Pantheon of Rome. In R. Wrigley, & M. Craske (Eds.), Pantheons : transformations of a monumental idea (11-34). Ashgate Publishing

AB URBE CONDITA TRI[...]: A new commemoration of the imperial tribunician powers from the imperial vicus (Castelporziano) (1998)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (1998). AB URBE CONDITA TRI[...]: A new commemoration of the imperial tribunician powers from the imperial vicus (Castelporziano). In M. G. Lauro (Ed.), Castelporziano III: Campagne di scavo e restauro 1987-1991 (137-149). Viella

The architectural history of the Pantheon in Rome from Agrippa to Septimius Severus via Hadrian. (1997)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (1997). The architectural history of the Pantheon in Rome from Agrippa to Septimius Severus via Hadrian

The monumentality of the basilica stoa at Thera and Antoninus Pius (1994)
Conference Proceeding
Thomas, E. (1994). The monumentality of the basilica stoa at Thera and Antoninus Pius. In X. D. I. Raventós (Ed.),

Constructing reconstruction: claim and reality of Roman rebuilding inscriptions in the Latin West. (1992)
Journal Article
Thomas, E., & Witschel, C. (1992). Constructing reconstruction: claim and reality of Roman rebuilding inscriptions in the Latin West. Papers of the British School at Rome, 60(1992), 135-177