The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society (Routledge by Katharine T. von Stackelberg
By Katharine T. von Stackelberg
This cutting edge ebook is the 1st entire learn of historic Roman gardens to mix literary and archaeological facts with modern area idea. It applies numerous interdisciplinary equipment together with entry research, literary and gender conception to supply a serious framework for examining Roman gardens as actual websites and representations.
The Roman backyard: area, experience, and Society examines how the backyard functioned as a conceptual, sensual and actual area in Roman society, and its use as a automobile of cultural communique. Readers will examine not just concerning the content material and improvement of the Roman backyard, but in addition how they promoted stories and studies. It encompasses a exact unique research of backyard terminology and concludes with 3 case reports at the apartment of Octavius Quartio and the home of the Menander in Pompeii, Pliny’s Tuscan backyard, and Caligula’s Horti Lamiani in Rome.
Providing either an creation and a sophisticated research, it is a beneficial and unique addition to the transforming into scholarship in old gardens and may supplement classes on Roman historical past, panorama archaeology and environmental history.
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