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Ancient Roman villas : the essential sourcebook / edited and with translations by Guy P.R. Métraux.

LIBRA NA324 .A53 2025
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Métraux, Guy P. R., editor, translator.
Language:
English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Latin
Subjects (All):
Country homes--Rome--History--Sources.
Country homes.
Architecture, Domestic--Rome--History--Sources.
Architecture, Domestic.
Physical Description:
480 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm
Distribution:
Chicago : Distributed in the United States and Canada by the University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2025]
Summary:
"A compendium of newly translated Latin and ancient Greek primary sources on ancient Roman villas"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Greek and Sicilian backgrounds of Roman villas
Villas in Roman agricultural treatises
Villas in Roman architectural treatises
Descriptions of villas
Villas and otium
Villa visits
Economics and euergetism
Buying, building, improving, and selling villas
Villas and horti in the late Roman Republic
Emperors and villas.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-462) and indexes.
ISBN:
1606069373
9781606069370
OCLC:
1425238816

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