Roman landscape
Subtitle: culture and identity
By: by Diana Spencer
Series: Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics -- no. 39
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781107400245
Subjects: Nature (Aesthetics); Roman Aesthetics; Landscape archaeology; Nature and civilization; Civilization; Landscapes; Roman Gardens; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Surveying the scene; title: Landscape and aesthetics; title: Those happy fields? DIY landscaping; title: Landscape : time and motion; title: Italy and the villa estate, or, of cabbages and kings. Philosophical landscapes : Cicero, loca, and imagines ; Varro's exopolis : landscape and Italy; title: Columella : landscape and the body of history; title: Statius, landscape, and autarky : between authenticity and delight; title: Ekphrasis: Pliny's artful landscapes; title: Spaces and places. Landscape as background and foreground; title: Landscape and scale : gardens; title: Imagined landscapes : the Villa "Farnesina"; title: Total immersion : Livia's garden room (Villa ad Gallinas Albas, Prima Porta); title: Landscapes encircling the city : the Horti Sallustiani and Porticus of Pompey; title: Envoi : Getting (away from) it all at Hadrian's villa.