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Spencer, Diana 1969-

Roman landscape : culture and identity / by Diana Spencer. - Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xvi, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - (Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics ; no. 39) . - Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics ; no. 39. .

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.

ISBN: 9781107400245 (pbk.) 1107400244 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Landscapes--History.--Rome
Nature and civilization--History.--Rome
Aesthetics, Roman.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Gardens, Roman--Italy.
Landscape archaeology--Italy.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Rome--Civilization.

Subjects--Index Terms: ლანდშაფტები - რომი - ისტორია ბაღები - ესთეტიკა ბუნება - ესთეტიკა

Dewey Class. No.: 712.093763

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 712(37)