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Roman landscape : culture and identity

Title: Roman landscape : culture and identity / by Diana Spencer.
Author: Spencer, Diana, 1969-
Publication: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Description

xvi, 236 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Subjects

Aesthetics, Roman
Nature (Aesthetics)
Rome > Civilization
Nature and civilization > Rome > History
Gardens, Roman > Italy
Landscape archaeology > Italy
Landscapes > Rome > History

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

L 11-2064 no. 39

ISBN

9781107400245
1107400244

LCCN

2011281618

OCLC

681488445

Author

Spencer, Diana, 1969-

Title

Roman landscape : culture and identity / by Diana Spencer.

Imprint

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

Series

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

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

Bibliography

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

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L 11-2064 no. 39

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