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Space syntax: Ostia by the numbers - HANNA STÖGER, RETHINKING OSTIA. A SPATIAL ENQUIRY INTO THE URBAN SOCIETY OF ROME'S IMPERIAL PORT-TOWN (Archaeological Studies, Leiden University 24, 2011; University of Chicago Press 2013). Pp. v + 315, figs. 195 including colour. ISBN 9789087281502. $55.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2014
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3 A good English-language introduction to this work can be found in Martin, A., Heinzelmann, M., Sena, E. C. De and Cecere, M. G. Granino, “The urbanistic project on the previously unexcavated areas of Ostia (DAI-AAR 1996-2001),” MAAR 47 (2002) 259–304 Google Scholar. See also Heinzelmann, M. and Martin, A., “River port, navalia, and harbour temple at Ostia: new results of a DAI-AAR Project,” JRA 15 (2002) 5–19 Google Scholar.
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