Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn
Subtitle: Kircher's Latium and its legacy
By: Harry B. Evans
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472118151
Subjects: Ancient Antiquities; Roman Antiquities; Geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : tackling topography; title: Preliminaries : Latium, the church, the pope, and Kircher's preface; title: It all started with Noah; title: Latium's lake country, the Alban Hills; title: Villas and a tomb : Tusculum and the Ager Tusculanus; title: Praeneste : Barberini town and its mosaic; title: Villa country : Tivoli and its surrounding territory; title: The Sabines and Volscians; title: Draining the Pomptine marshes : a not-so-modest proposal; title: Habent sua fata libelli : Fabretti's reading of Kircher; title: The legacy of Kircher's Latium.