Diana Spencer

Roman Landscape

Culture and Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This survey explores how and why Romans of the late Republic and early Principate were fascinated with landscaped nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781107400245
• ISBN-10: 1107400244
• Artikelnr.: 32930907

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: surveying the scene
2. Landscape and aesthetics
3. Those happy fields: aborious landscapes and DIY self-help
4. Landscape: time and motion
5. Italy and the villa estate, or, of cabbages and kings
5.1. Philosophical landscapes: Cicero, loca, and imagines
5.2. Varro's exopolis: landscape and Italy
5.3. Columella: landscape and the body of history
5.4. Statius, landscape, and autarky: between authenticity and delight
5.5. Ekphrasis: Pliny's artful landscapes
6. Spaces and Places
6.1. Landscape as background and foreground
6.2. Landscape and scale: gardens
6.3. Imagined landscapes: the Villa 'Farnesina'
6.4. Total immersion: Livia's garden room (Villa ad Gallinas Albas, Prima Porta)
6.5. Landscapes encircling the city: the Horti Sallustiani and Porticus of Pompey
Envoi. Getting (away from) it all at Hadrian's villa
Bibliography
Webography.