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.