The Roman Garden

Author : Katharine T. von Stackelberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134071654

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The Roman Garden by Katharine T. von Stackelberg Pdf

This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting Roman gardens as physical sites and representations. The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society examines how the garden functioned as a conceptual, sensual and physical space in Roman society, and its use as a vehicle of cultural communication. Readers will learn not only about the content and development of the Roman garden, but also how they promoted memories and experiences. It includes a detailed original analysis of garden terminology and concludes with three case studies on the House of Octavius Quartio and the House of the Menander in Pompeii, Pliny’s Tuscan garden, and Caligula’s Horti Lamiani in Rome. Providing both an introduction and an advanced analysis, this is a valuable and original addition to the growing scholarship in ancient gardens and will complement courses on Roman history, landscape archaeology and environmental history.

Author : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski,Kathryn L. Gleason,Kim J. Hartswick,Amina-Aïcha Malek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108327039

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Gardens of the Roman Empire by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski,Kathryn L. Gleason,Kim J. Hartswick,Amina-Aïcha Malek Pdf

In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.

Author : John Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134346110

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The Roman Book of Gardening by John Henderson Pdf

The first book to look at this particular subject, The Roman Book of Gardening brings together an extraordinarily varied selection of texts on Roman horticulture, celebrating herb and vegetable gardening in verse and prose spanning five centuries. In vivid new translations by John Henderson, Virgil's Georgics stand alongside neglected works by Columella, Pliny and Palladius, bringing to life the techniques and obstacles, delights and exasperations of the Roman gardener. We also hear of the digging, hoeing, planting and weeding which then, as now, went into creating the perfect garden. This is a timely and valuable contribution to our understanding of gardening history, Roman culture and Latin literature.

Author : Linda Farrar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0752464434

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Ancient Roman Gardens by Linda Farrar Pdf

A history of the development of Roman gardens from humble vegetable patches to the sophisticated formats seen at the height of the empire. Domestic, public, town and country gardens are covered, and archaeological research is used to illustrate the value of gardens to contemporary society.

Author : Elisabeth B. MacDougall,Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884021009

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Ancient Roman Gardens by Elisabeth B. MacDougall,Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski Pdf

Author : Patrick Bowe
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardens, Roman
ISBN : 9780892367405

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Gardens of the Roman World by Patrick Bowe Pdf

Romans loved their gardens, whether they were the grand gardens of imperial country estates or the small private spaces tucked behind city houses. They treasured gardens both as places for relaxation and as plots to grow ornamental plants as well as fruits and vegetables. The soothing sound of bubbling fountains often added further to the pleasures of life in the garden. Romans constructed gardens in every corner of their empire, from Britain to North Africa and from Portugal to Asia Minor. Long after their empire collapsed, the gardens they had so carefully planted continued to exert influence in the farflung corners of their former world. This book describes the variety of Roman gardens throughout the empire, from the humblest to the most lavish, including such well-known places as Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli and the gardens of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The continued influence of Roman gardens is traced though Arabic, medieval, and Renaissance gardens to the present day. Many of the lavish illustrations were commissioned for this book.

Author : Anthony Beeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445690315

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Roman Gardens by Anthony Beeson Pdf

A fascinating look at the history and legacy of Roman gardens, focusing on Great Britain. The author is a board member of the Association for Roman Archaeology and a prolific writer of papers on Roman art and architecture and has lectured on the subject of Roman gardens.

Author : Peter Bernhardt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780813544724

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Gods and Goddesses in the Garden by Peter Bernhardt Pdf

Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. Did you know that these and other dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live on in the names of trees and flowers? Some grow in your local woodlands or right in your own backyard garden. In this delightful book, botanist Peter Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names. Unlike other books about botanical taxonomy that take the form of heavy and intimidating lexicons, Bernhardt's account comes together in a series of interlocking stories. Each chapter opens with a short version of a classical myth, then links the tale to plant names, showing how each plant "resembles" its mythological counterpart with regard to its history, anatomy, life cycle, and conservation. You will learn, for example, that as our garden acanthus wears nasty spines along its leaf margins, it is named for the nymph who scratched the face of Apollo. The shape-shifting god, Proteus, gives his name to a whole family of shrubs and trees that produce colorful flowering branches in an astonishing number of sizes and shapes. Amateur and professional gardeners, high school teachers and professors of biology, botanists and conservationists alike will appreciate this book's entertaining and informative entry to the otherwise daunting field of botanical names. Engaging, witty, and memorable, Gods and Goddesses in the Garden transcends the genre of natural history and makes taxonomy a topic equally at home in the classroom and at cocktail parties.

Author : Diana Spencer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107400245

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Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity by Diana Spencer Pdf

This survey explores how and why Romans of the late Republic and early Principate were fascinated with landscaped nature. Thematic discussions and case studies work through what 'landscape' represented and how studying Roman identity in terms of place, environment and the natural world helps us better to understand Rome itself.

Author : Victoria Emma Pagán
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472502520

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Rome and the Literature of Gardens by Victoria Emma Pagán Pdf

"Rome and the Literature of Gardens" explores the garden as a powerful locus of transformation and transgression in the "De Re Rustica" of Columella, the "Satires" of Horace, the "Annals" of Tacitus, and the "Confessions" of Saint Augustine. In keeping with the approach of this series, a concluding chapter examines the reincarnation of these expressions in the contemporary plays "Arcadia" and "The Invention of Love" by Tom Stoppard. Many books on gardens in ancient Rome concentrate on either technical agricultural manuals, or pastoral poetry, or the physical remains of Roman gardens. Instead, this book considers images of gardens from a kaleidoscope of genres, especially those that the Romans made their own: satire, annalistic history, and autobiography. This atypical approach makes a unique contribution to the field of Latin literature and garden history, bridging the gap between material culture and cultural history.

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191644498

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The Hermit in the Garden by Gordon Campbell Pdf

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those who took employment as garden hermits were typically required to refrain from cutting their hair or washing, and some were dressed as druids. Unlike the hermits of the Middle Ages, these were wholly secular hermits, products of the eighteenth century fondness for 'pleasing melancholy'. Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by the end of the eighteenth century, they had left their indelible mark on both the literature as well as the gardens of the period. And, as Gordon Campbell shows, they live on in the art, literature, and drama of our own day - as well as in the figure of the modern-day garden gnome. This engaging and generously illustrated book takes the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit and also around the sites of many of the surviving hermitages themselves, which remain scattered throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. And for the real enthusiast, there is even a comprehensive checklist, enabling avid hermitage-hunters to locate their prey.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691175003

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The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden by Harriet I. Flower Pdf

The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated book, the first to focus on the lares, Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion. Weaving together a wide range of evidence, Flower sets forth a new interpretation of the much-disputed nature of the lares. She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors—gods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. She examines the rituals honoring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography, as well as the meaning of the snakes often depicted alongside lares in paintings of gardens. She also looks at Compitalia, a popular midwinter neighborhood festival in honor of the lares, and describes how its politics played a key role in Rome’s increasing violence in the 60s and 50s BC, as well as in the efforts of Augustus to reach out to ordinary people living in the city’s local neighborhoods. A reconsideration of seemingly humble gods that were central to the religious world of the Romans, this is also the first major account of the full range of lares worship in the homes, neighborhoods, and temples of ancient Rome.

Author : Linda Farrar
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047439065

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Ancient Roman Gardens by Linda Farrar Pdf

Ancient Roman Gardens is the first comprehensive account of gardens and gardening in the Roman period, creating a fascinating new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of life and society in ancient Rome, and adding an important chapter to the history of gardening and horticulture. Linda Farrar traces the development of Roman gardens from their humble origins as vegetable patches to the sophisticated forms seen at the height of the Empire. She considers all types of gardens - domestic and public, in town and country, large and small in scale - and her study features evidence from gardens in Italy and from sites throughout the provinces of the Empire. Literature, frescoes, mosaics and extensive archaeological research provide information which is brought together to give a vivid account of the rich variety of Roman gardens. Recent research has revealed much about the garden plants favoured by the Romans, and the text describes how these plants were used - for garlands, to make wines, cordials and foodstuffs, to provide nectar for honeybees. The many architectural features and sculptures so beloved of the Roman gardener are also covered, as are the habits of Roman gardeners, their tools and horticultural techniques. Ancient Roman Gardens will appeal strongly to anyone who has a keen interest in ancient history and archaeology, as well as to classicists and art historians. It will also be fascinating reading for gardeners in general, for landscape gardeners in particular, and for all garden historians. -- Book cover.

Author : Amy Richlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aggressiveness in literature
ISBN : 9780195068733

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The Garden of Priapus by Amy Richlin Pdf

Statues of the god Priapus stood in Roman gardens to warn potential thieves that the god would rape them if they attempted to steal from him. In this book, Richlin argues that the attitude of sexual aggressiveness in defense of a bounded area serves as a model for Roman satire from Lucilius to Juvenal. Using literary, anthropological, psychological, and feminist methodologies, she suggests that aggressive sexual humor reinforces aggressive behavior on both the individual and societal levels, and that Roman satire provides an insight into Roman culture. Including a substantial and provocative new introduction, this revised edition is important not only as an in-depth study of Roman sexual satire, but also as a commentary on the effects of all humor on society and its victims.

Author : Linda Farrar
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015038151265

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Gardens of Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire by Linda Farrar Pdf

This book examines aspects of horticulture, or the culture of the hortus (the Latin word for garden). Different forms of garden are discussed, such as the rustic hortus which often included an orchard and an area for growing vegetables and herbs, country gardens and those of the town, down to the humble window boxes or balcony gardens of city dwellers living in apartments. Because of the nature of evidence available, its main focus is on decorative gardens, domestic or public, used as an amenity. Its goals are to ascertain if the gardens of Pompeii are representative of those throughout the Empire, or particular to that area; to discover the effect of regional customs, and differences in climate, on the appearance of gardens; to uncover the range of characteristic elements found within Roman gardens; and to determine if it is possible to find a chronological sequence for any of the garden features.