The Resource Roman landscape : culture and identity, by Diana Spencer
Roman landscape : culture and identity, by Diana Spencer
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The item Roman landscape : culture and identity, by Diana Spencer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Roman landscape : culture and identity, by Diana Spencer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "This book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) sets the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also to scrutinise and understand) what it meant to be a citizen." -- Publisher's description
- Language
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- eng
- lat
- lat
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 236 p.
- Contents
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- 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
- Label
- Roman landscape : culture and identity
- Title
- Roman landscape
- Title remainder
- culture and identity
- Statement of responsibility
- by Diana Spencer
- Language
-
- eng
- lat
- lat
- eng
- Summary
- "This book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) sets the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also to scrutinise and understand) what it meant to be a citizen." -- Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Spencer, Diana
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English; includes text in Latin with English translation
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Landscapes
- Nature and civilization
- Aesthetics, Roman
- Nature (Aesthetics)
- Gardens, Roman
- Landscape archaeology
- Rome
- Label
- Roman landscape : culture and identity, by Diana Spencer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-220) and index
- 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
- Control code
- ocn681488445
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xvi, 236 p.
- Isbn
- 9781107400245
- Lccn
- 2011281618
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
- Label
- Roman landscape : culture and identity, by Diana Spencer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-220) and index
- 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
- Control code
- ocn681488445
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xvi, 236 p.
- Isbn
- 9781107400245
- Lccn
- 2011281618
- Other physical details
- ill., maps
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