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OSTIA FULL-TEXT BOOKS AND ARTICLES |
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Articles
L.B. van der Meer, "Travertine Cornerstones in Ostia Antica: Odd Blocks" (AJA 106, 2002, 575-580).
- J.Th. Bakker, The mills-bakeries of Ostia and the distributions of free grain (lecture held at Durham, UK, May 2000; reworked for Descoeudres 2001, and published in French)
Paolo Lenzi, "Sita in loco qui vocatur calcaria": attivita di spoliazione e forni da calce a Ostia (Archeologia Medievale XXV, 1998, pp. 247-263).
- M.V. Ronnick, Juvenal, Satire 12.81: Ubi Est 'Ibi'? (Scholia 4 (1995), 105-107).
I. Gismondi, La Colimbetra del teatro di Ostia (Anthemon, Scritti in onore di Carlo Anti, 293 ff., Venice, 1954).
- L. Constans, "Ostie primitive", Journal des Savants 1926, 436ff. can be consulted on the website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- G. Calza, Le Terme Ostiensi (Architettura e Arti Decorative 1926, 337-344).
- G. Calza, Le origine latine dell'abitazione moderna (I) (Architettura e Arti Decorative 1923, 3-18).
- I. Gismondi, Le origine latine dell'abitazione moderna (II) (Architettura e Arti Decorative 1923, 49-63).
- L. Constans, "Les fouilles d'Ostie (1914-17)", Journal des Savants 1917, 465ff. can be consulted on the website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- G. Calza, Expressions of Art in a Roman Commercial City: Ostia (JRS 5 (1915), 165-172).
- Th. Ashby, Recent Discoveries at Ostia (JRS 2 (1912), 153-194).
- J. Carcopino, "Les recentes fouilles d'Ostie (1909-11)", Journal des Savants 1911, 448-468 can be consulted on the website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- J. Carcopino, Ostiensia II - Le quartier des docks (MEFRA (Mél. d'Arch. et d'Hist.) 30 (1910), 397-446).
- J. Carcopino, La mosaïque de la caserne des vigiles à Ostie (MEFRA (Mél. d'Arch. et d'Hist.) 27 (1907), 227-241).
- P. Ducati, "L'ara di Ostia del Museo delle Terme di Diocleziano (Roma)", MEFRA (Mél. d'Arch. et d'Hist.) 26 (1906), 483-512 can be consulted on the website of Persée.
Notizie degli Scavi 1897-1903.
- P. Andre, "Le Teatre romain d'Ostie", MEFRA (Mél. d'Arch. et d'Hist.) 11 (1891), 492-505 can be consulted on the website of Persée.
- R. Lanciani, "Les recentes fouilles d'Ostie. La Caserme des Vigiles et l'Augusteum", MEFRA (Mél. d'Arch. et d'Hist.) 9 (1889), 174-179 can be consulted on the website of Persée.
- P. Andre, "Les recentes fouilles d'Ostie. Etude et plan des ruines", MEFRA (Mél. d'Arch. et d'Hist.) 9 (1889), 180-183 can be consulted on the website of Persée.
Books
J.Th. Bakker, Living and Working with the Gods. Studies of Evidence for Private Religion and its Material Environment in the City of Ostia (100 BC - 500 AD) (Amsterdam 1994)
J.Th. Bakker - J.H. Van Dalen - Th.L. Heres - B. Meijlink - A.J.B. Sirks (J. Th. Bakker ed.), The Mills-Bakeries of Ostia. Description and Interpretation (Amsterdam 1999)
G. Calza, Il teatro romano di Ostia (Roma-Milano 1927).
L. Paschetto, Ostia, Colonia Romana (Roma 1912): sommario e prefazione; 1-23; 24-57; 58-115; 116-140; 141-185; 186-206; 207-227; 228-264; 265-307; 308-328; 329-356; 357-404; 405-437; 438-483; 484-488; indice (missing pages: 99, 314-315, 326-327, 489-588).
- R. Lanciani, The Tiber and the Claudian Harbor (chapter 9 of "Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries" Boston and New York, 1898).
- R. Fisch, Eine Wanderung nach den Trümmern von Ostia (Berlin, 1898).
- G. Boissier, Promenades Archéologiques, Chapitre cinquième, Ostie (Paris, 1880-1895).
- C.L. Visconti, Le più notabili iscrizioni Ostiensi (1859).
- A. Nibby, Porto e Fiumicino (Roma 1849).
- C. Fea, Storia delle Saline d'Ostia introdotte da Anco Marcio quarto re di Roma dopo la fondazione di quella (1831).
- A. Nibby, Viaggio Antiquario ne' contorni di Roma. Viaggio ad Ostia (Roma 1819).
- A. Nibby, Viaggio Antiquario ne' contorni di Roma. Escursione all'Isola Sacra, e a Porto (Roma 1819).
- C. Fea, Relazione di un viaggio ad Ostia e alla villa di Plinio detta Laurentino (Roma 1802).
Collections
- Notizie degli Scavi 1904-1924 can be found on www.archive.org, in the section Texts.
- The Editoria Italiana Online and Persée offer various articles about Ostia from the Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome.
- If you are in a university domain you may have access to many more articles, for example at JSTOR and Peeters Publishers (BABesch).
Interviews
- J.Th. Bakker, Interview with Alberino Vicari, restorer of Ostian wall-paintings: Italian | English (1987).
Leaflets
- C. Valeri, Il mitra di Kriton e la copia della Collezione Giustiniani (leaflet distributed in the museum of Ostia during a special exhibition in 2003).
- F. Zevi, Un fregio tra Ostia e Berlino (leaflet distributed in the museum of Ostia during a special exhibition in 2003).
Newspapers
- Review of Scavi di Ostia I by Russell Meiggs (The Times, April 17, 1954).
Three articles from The Times (London) about the excavations: 1) Dec. 31, 1857, p. 6; 2) May 7, 1858, p. 6; 3) Jun. 2, 1858, p. 6.
Tesi di laurea
- H.-D. Bottke, Römische Mietshäuser (thesis Univ. Duisburg, 1999).
- Julien Fourniol (thesis Sorbonne, Paris, 1998):
Introduction. Le complexe portuaire d'Ostie. D'Ostie à Rome, les étapes de la "chaîne" du blé. Le stockage des grains et de l'huile à Ostie.- M. Ietto, Gli scavi di Ostia antica e l'attività di Guido Calza e Italo Gismondi nella formazione del dibattito culturale ed architettonico contemporaneo (1996).
Travellers' accounts
- L. Couperus, Uit blanke steden onder blauwe lucht: Ostia, April 1911 (in Dutch).
- J.W. Burgon, Letters from Rome to Friends in England: How to see Ostia with Comfort, London 1862, p. 10-12.
- O. Blewitt - J. Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy: Ostia, and the Cities of the Coast of Ancient Latium, London 1850, p. 593-598.
- K.H. Brandes, Wilhelm von Humboldt's gesammelte Werke, V, Berlin 1846, p. 248-249.
- M. Starke, Travels in Europe and in the Island of Sicily: With an Account of the Remains of Ancient Italy, Paris 1836, p. 243-245.
- R. Griffiths, Mad. de la Recke's Travels, The Monthly Review 1820, p. 500-501.
- A. Laurentian, Remarks during a Walk from Rome to Ostia, The Gentleman's Magazine 1817, p. 511-513.