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Roman landscape : culture and identity / by Diana Spencer.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics ; ; no. 39.Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xvi, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781107400245 (pbk.)
  • 1107400244 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 712.093763 22
Contents:
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.
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წიგნი წიგნი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 საცავი. 1 კორპ. 712(37) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2E60418 შესამოწმებელია 2011-1153

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.

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