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Roman landscape : culture and identity / by Diana Spencer.

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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Classical Association (Great Britain)
Description
xvi, 236 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) sets the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also to scrutinise and understand) what it meant to be a citizen."--Publisher's description.
Series Statement
Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics ; no. 39
Uniform Title
Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics no. 39.
Subject
  • Landscapes > Rome > History
  • Nature and civilization > Rome > History
  • Aesthetics, Roman
  • Nature (Aesthetics)
  • Gardens, Roman > Italy
  • Landscape archaeology > Italy
  • Rome > Civilization
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "Published for the Classical Association."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-220) and index.
  • Includes bibliography (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.
ISBN
9781107400245 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 681488445
  • SCSB-12782155
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library