Domesticating Empire - Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Egypt in the Garden


• Chapter 2: Imagining the Nile: Affordances and Contexts


• Chapter 3: From Egypt to Oikoumene: Interactive Landscapes in the Casa dell'Efebo


• Chapter 4: Self, "Other," and Beyond in the Casa del Medico


• Chapter 5: Making Meaning on the Margins: Nilotic Marginalia in the Casa del Fauno


• Chapter 6: Model Worlds: Three-Dimensional Nilotica in the Casa di Acceptus e Euhodia


• Chapter 7: Conclusions: Egyptian Landscapes in Context


• Appendices

About the author

Caitlín Eilís Barrett is Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University.

Summary

Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households, investigating the functions of Egyptian landscapes within domestic gardens at Pompeii. So-called "Aegyptiaca" helped transform domestic space into a microcosm of the Roman world and enabled ancient Pompeians to present themselves as cosmopolitan, sophisticated citizens of empire.

Additional text

While aimed at classics scholars, this book offers Egyptophiles the opportunity to explore the Egyptian landscape through the eyes of the Romans

Product details

• Authors: Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Caitlin Eilis (Associate Professor of Cla Barrett
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190641351
• ISBN: 978-0-19-064135-1
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, Ancient Egypt, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology, Art & Design Styles: Classicism, Neo-Classicism