Trees in Ancient Rome : Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate / Andrew Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Andrew

Series:

Ancient Environments.

Ancient Environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees--Ancient Rome.

Trees.

Trees--history.

Physical Description:

1 recurso en l ínea (XII, 190 páginas) : ilustraciones en blanco y negro

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and Remus and year's later Rome was founded between two groves. As the city grew, neighbourhoods bore the names of groves and hills were known by the trees which grew atop them. From the 1st century BCE, triumphs included trees among their spoils and Rome's green cityscape grew, as did the challenges of finding room for trees within the congested city. This volume begins with an examination of the role of trees as repositories of human memory, lasting for several generations. It goes on to untangle the import of trees, and their role in the triumphal procession, before closing with a discussion of how trees could be grown in Rome's urban spaces. Drawing on a combination of literary, visual and archaeological sources, it reveals the rich variety of trees in evidence, and explores how they impacted, and were used to impact, life in the ancient city.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Trees in Urban Spaces

Rome's first monumental tree

What is a tree, and what is a grove?

Trees in scholarship

Utility

Religion

Landscape and gardens

War and empire

Post-classical trees and monumentality

The nature of the evidence

An arboreal cosmopolis

1 Memory and Trees

Echoes of trees: Evander's Rome

Echoes of trees: Neighbourhood names

Memory and provenance

Pliny and Rome's ancient trees

A dynastic grove

A corrupted grove

The Camenae grove

2 Bringing Trees to Rome

Utility and luxury in Pliny's Natural History

The fruit of the vine

The timber of the citrus

The shade of the plane

The structure of Pliny's Natural History

3 Trees in the Triumph

Triumphal imports

Which trees were displayed?

How were trees imported?

Case study: Trajan and Dacia

Identification

Deployment

Dacia in Rome's cityscape

Crowns

Grass crown

Civic crown

Triumphal crown

Tropaea

4 Keeping Trees in the City

Vitruvius on porticoes

Three urban forests

The Porticus Europae and the Porticus Vipsania

Adonaea

Porticus Philippi

Controlling spaces

Case study: Trees on the Mausoleum of Augustus

Conclusion

A New Leaf

Appendix: Categorized List of Contents for Books Twelve to Seventeen of Pliny's Natural History

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Trees

Index.

Notes:

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices

Other Format:

Print version: Fox, Andrew Trees in Ancient Rome

ISBN:

9781350237834

1350237833

9781350237810

1350237817

OCLC:

1376933281