Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity - Culture and Identity

Klappentext This survey explores how and why Romans of the late Republic and early Principate were fascinated with landscaped nature. Zusammenfassung This survey explores how and why Romans of the late Republic and early Principate were fascinated with landscaped nature. Thematic discussions and case studies work through what 'landscape' represented and how studying Roman identity in terms of place! environment and the natural world helps us better to understand Rome itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Spencer, Diana (University of Birmingham) Spencer, Spencer Diana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2011
• EAN: 9781107400245
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40024-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: New Surveys in the Classics; New Surveys in the Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Ancient Rome, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Roman style