EVOLUTION OF COLONNADED AVENUES IN THE ROMAN CITYSCAPE: ROLE OF CILICIA

Year 2003, Issue: 8, 33 - 55, 01.11.2003

Suna Güven

Abstract

EVOLUTION OF COLONNADED AVENUES IN THE ROMAN CITYSCAPE: ROLE OF CILICIA

Abstract

In one of his presentations for the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures1,
George M.A. Hanfmann began his talk on Roman urban renewal with a
light-hearted quotation from Catullus: “Ad claras Asiae volemus urbes
(46.6 )/let us fly to the famous cities of Asia”.2 In doing so, like the Latin
poet himself, Hanfmann also had in mind the spectacular flourishing cities
in the Roman province of Asia like Sardis, Ephesus, Miletus, Pergamum
and others. Another great student of Roman architecture in the twentieth
century, the British scholar J.B.Ward-Perkins felt no different. According
to him, “the cities of southern Asia Minor, though rich in buildings of the
Roman period, are architecturally far less important than those of the
western coasts and valleys”.3 In this regard, what Ward-Perkins had to say
about architecture and cities in Roman Pamphylia was quite short and not
very exciting. On the other hand, his opinion about the architecture of
Cilicia on the south-east corner of Asia Minor, was even more disparaging.
In the absence of excavations, he simply felt “one could be even briefer”4
about the architecture in this region.

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