The Roman villa in the Mediterranean basin : late republic to late antiquity / edited by Annalisa Marzano, Guy P.R. Métraux.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Marzano, Annalisa, 1969- editor.

Métraux, Guy P. R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Architecture, Domestic.

Classical antiquities.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities, Roman.

Mediterranean Region.

Architecture, Domestic--Mediterranean Region.

Architecture and society--Mediterranean Region.

Architecture, Roman.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 599 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The expansion and proliferation of villas into the Mediterranean under Roman hegemony is the topic of this volume. In addition, the historical trajectory of the villa as a formula and phenomenon is outlined for different parts of the empire. Villas - extra-urban, suburban, or seaside country houses, many with productive estates or facilities contiguous or non-adjacent to them, others purely residential - were unmistakable signs of Roman social and economic presence. Roman villas expanded into Italy and the coasts and inland areas of the mare nostrum (and ultimately into the northwestern provinces of the empire) along with other agricultural, physical, institutional, and socio-cultural phenomena of the new hegemony. There were exceptions, most notably in the eastern empire where a widespread residential tradition and culture on agricultural estates did not develop. However, villas were signs of Roman economic organization and signifiers of Roman cultural presence in annexed lands and coastlines, and they became both normal and normalizing by the late-2nd century BCE in central and southern Italy and a little later in the northern peninsula. Elsewhere, landscapes readily receptive to the implantation of villas and their proliferation in the imperial period further assured Roman presence in terms of architecture, agricultural practices, decorative expectations, and social mores throughout the Mediterranean"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Roman villa in the Mediterranean : an overview / Annalisa Marzano and Guy P.R. Metraux

The Roman villa. Definitions and variations / Ursula Rothe

The villa of the mysteries at Pompeii and the ideals of Hellenistic hospitality / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

The building history and aesthetics of the "Villa of Poppaea" at Torre Annunziata : results from the Oplontis Project 2005-2014 / John R. Clarke

Landscape at the "Villa of Poppaea" (Villa A) at Torre Annunziata / Mantha Zarmakoupi

The villas of Stabiae / Thomas Noble Howe

The Roman villa of Postiano / Adele Campanelli, Giovanni Di Maio, Riccardo Iaccarino, Maria Antonietta Iannelli, Luciana Jacobelli

Maritime villas and the resources of the sea / Annalisa Marzano

The "Villa of Augustus" at Somma Vesuviana / Masanori Aoyagi, Antonio De Simone, and Girolamo F. De Simone

Villas in southern italy / Maurizio Gualtieri

Villas in northern Italy / Gian Pietro Brogiolo and Alexandra Chavarria Arnau

Roman villas in Sicily / Roger J.A. Wilson

Villas in south and southwestern Gaul / Loic Buffat

Villas in Hispania and Lusitania / Felix Teichner

Roman villas in the Maltese Archipelago / Anthony Bonanno

Villas in north Africa / Roger J.A. Wilson

The Roman villa at Apollonia / Oren Tal and the late Israel Roll

Houses of the wealthy in Roman Galilee / Zeev Weiss

Villas in Greece and the islands / Maria Papaioannou

Villas of the eastern Adriatic and Ionian coastlands / William Bowden

Late antique villas : themes / Guy P.R. Metraux

Aristocratic residences in late antique Hispania / Gisela Ripoll

Christianization of villas / Kimberly Bowes

Conviviality versus seclusion in Pliny's Tuscan and Laurentine villas / Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey

The Villa Dei Papiri : Herculaneum and Malibu / Kenneth Lapatin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9781107164314

1107164311

OCLC:

992779561

Publisher Number:

99977621133