Spencer, Diana  1969- <br/><br/>
Roman landscape :  culture and identity / 
by Diana Spencer. 
 - Cambridge, U.K. ;  New York, NY :  Cambridge University Press,  2010. 
 - xvi, 236 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
 - Greece & Rome  New surveys in the classics 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-220) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Surveying the scene -- Landscape and aesthetics -- Those happy fields? DIY landscaping -- Landscape : time and motion -- Italy and the villa estate, or, of cabbages and kings. Philosophical landscapes : Cicero, loca, and imagines ; Varro's exopolis : landscape and Italy -- Columella : landscape and the body of history -- Statius, landscape, and autarky : between authenticity and delight -- Ekphrasis: Pliny's artful landscapes -- Spaces and places. Landscape as background and foreground -- Landscape and scale : gardens -- Imagined landscapes : the Villa "Farnesina" -- Total immersion : Livia's garden room (Villa ad Gallinas Albas, Prima Porta) -- Landscapes encircling the city : the Horti Sallustiani and Porticus of Pompey -- Envoi : Getting (away from) it all at Hadrian's villa. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107400245 1107400244 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Landscapes--History--Rome<br/>Nature and civilization--History--Rome<br/>Aesthetics, Roman<br/>Nature (Aesthetics)<br/>Gardens, Roman--Italy<br/>Landscape archaeology--Italy
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rome--Civilization
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>712.093763