Gardens of the Roman Empire

ISBN-13: 9780521821612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 653 str.

Wilhelmina F. Jashemski; Kathryn L. Gleason; Kim J. Hartswick

Opis

Gathers archaeological, literary, and artistic knowledge about gardens throughout the Roman Empire under the emperor Trajan.

Spis treści

Introduction Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, and Amina-Aïcha Malek; Part I. The Main Types of Gardens: 1. The garden in the domus Eric Morvillez; 2. The Roman villa garden: actuality, ideology, and memory Kim J. Hartswick; 3. The archaeology of gardens in the Roman villa: gardens of allusion and production Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis; 4. Produce gardens: kitchen gardens, vineyards, orchards, and commercial flower gardens Wilhelmina F. Jashemski; 5. Temple gardens and sacred groves Maureen Carroll; 6. Gardens in baths and palaestras Janet DeLaine; 7. Gardens in gymnasia, schools, and scholae Maureen Carroll; 8. Roman tomb gardens John Bodel; Part II. The Experience of Gardens as Revealed by Literature and Art: 9. Greek literary evidence for Roman gardens and those of late antiquity Antony R. Littlewood; 10. Representations of gardens in Roman literature K. Sara Myers; 11. Frescoes in Roman gardens: painted worlds Bettina Bergmann; 12. Mosaics and nature in the Roman domus: cultural allusions Amina-Aïcha Malek; 13. Sculpture in ancient Roman gardens Kim J. Hartswick; Part III. Making the Garden: 14. Constructing the ancient Roman garden Kathryn L. Gleason and Michele A. Palmer; 15. Water and water technology in Roman gardens Gemma Jansen; 16. Gardening practices and techniques Wilhelmina F. Jashemski; 17. Plants of the Roman garden Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason and Michael Herchenbach; 18. Conclusions: new perspectives on the Roman garden and its archaeology Kathryn L. Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, Amina-Aïcha Malek and Michele A. Palmer.