Outputs (17)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

‘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

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.

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