Roman landscape : culture and identity / by Diana Spencer.
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- 9781107400245
- 1107400244
- 712.093763
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CYA Library Main Collection | 712.093763 SPE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000006772 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-220) and index.
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.