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Ancient Roman villas : the essential sourcebook / edited and with translations by Guy P.R. Métraux.
LIBRA NA324 .A53 2025
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- 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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