Roman landscape : culture and identity / by Diana Spencer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer, Diana, 1969-

Series:

Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics ; no. 39.

Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics ; no. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes--Rome--History.

Landscapes.

Nature and civilization--Rome--History.

Nature and civilization.

Landscape archaeology.

Gardens, Roman.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Civilization.

Aesthetics, Roman.

Nature (Aesthetics).

Gardens, Roman--Italy.

Landscape archaeology--Italy.

Italy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction : Surveying the scene

Landscape and aesthetics

Those happy fields? DIY landscaping

Landscape: time and motion

Italy and the villa estate, or, of cabbages and kings: Philosophical landscapes: Cicero, loca, and imagines ; Varro's exopolis: landscape and Italy ; Columella: landscape and the body of history ; Statius, landscape, and autarky: between authenticity and delight ; Ekphrasis: Pliny's artful landscapes

Spaces and places: Landscape as background and foreground ; Landscape and scale: gardens ; Imagined landscapes: the Villa "Farnesina" ; Total immersion: Livia's garden room (Villa ad Gallinas Albas, Prima Porta) ; Landscapes encircling the city: the Horti Sallustiani and Porticus of Pompey

Envoi : Getting (away from) it all at Hadrian's villa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9781107400245

1107400244

OCLC:

681488445