{"product_id":"roman-landscape-culture-and-identity-paperback-9781107400245","title":"Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107400245","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRoman Landscape: Culture and Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis survey explores how and why Romans of the late Republic and early Principate were fascinated with landscaped nature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiana Spencer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107400245, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 February 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.1 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book is well made, with useful illustrations, and attractively priced.\"  --BMCR\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) set the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also to scrutinize and understand) what it meant to be a citizen. It investigates what 'landscape' means now and reflects upon how contemporary approaches to 'landscape' can enrich our understanding of ancient experience of the interface between natural and artificial space. It encourages examination of 'landscape' from a range of angles, suggesting alternative ways of thinking about what landscape represents. These methodological approaches (presented initially via a set of key terms and definitions and then deployed thematically across four chapters), combined with a detailed interdisciplinary bibliography and a series of case studies of literary texts and material sites, enable readers to use this survey as a starting point for developing their own in-depth study.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: surveying the scene\u003cbr\u003e 2. Landscape and aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e 3. Those happy fields: aborious landscapes and DIY self-help\u003cbr\u003e 4. Landscape: time and motion\u003cbr\u003e 5. Italy and the villa estate, or, of cabbages and kings\u003cbr\u003e 5.1. Philosophical landscapes: Cicero, loca, and imagines\u003cbr\u003e 5.2. Varro's exopolis: landscape and Italy\u003cbr\u003e 5.3. Columella: landscape and the body of history\u003cbr\u003e 5.4. Statius, landscape, and autarky: between authenticity and delight\u003cbr\u003e 5.5. Ekphrasis: Pliny's artful landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 6. Spaces and Places\u003cbr\u003e 6.1. Landscape as background and foreground\u003cbr\u003e 6.2. Landscape and scale: gardens\u003cbr\u003e 6.3. Imagined landscapes: the Villa 'Farnesina'\u003cbr\u003e 6.4. Total immersion: Livia's garden room (Villa ad Gallinas Albas, Prima Porta)\u003cbr\u003e 6.5. Landscapes encircling the city: the Horti Sallustiani and Porticus of Pompey\u003cbr\u003e Envoi. Getting (away from) it all at Hadrian's villa\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Webography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e], History of art: ancient \u0026amp; classical art,BCE to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of art: ancient \u0026amp; classical art,BCE to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20art:%20ancient%20\u0026amp;%20classical%20art,BCE%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BACG%5D%22\"\u003eACG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909127168280,"sku":"9781107400245","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107400245i_49f7853b-dcf5-42f0-92ef-928d8709040c.jpg?v=1694484771","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/roman-landscape-culture-and-identity-paperback-9781107400245","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}