Analysing the boundaries of the ancient Roman garden : (re)framing the hortus

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    • Austen, Victoria

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Analysing the boundaries of the ancient Roman garden : (re)framing the hortus

Victoria Austen

(Ancient environments / series editors Anna Collar, Esther Eidinow, Katharina Lorenz)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p.185-205) and indexes

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内容説明

This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from across literature and material and visual culture, Victoria Austen explores the perception of individual garden sites in response to their limits, and showcases how the Romans delighted in playing with concepts of boundedness and separation. Transculturally, the garden is understood as a marked-off and cultivated space. Distinct from their surroundings, gardens are material and symbolic spaces that constitute both universal and culturally specific ways of accommodating the natural world and expressing human attitudes and values. Although we define these spaces explicitly through the notions of separation and division, in many cases we are unable to make sense of the most basic distinction between 'garden' and 'not-garden'. In response to this ambiguity, Austen interrogates the notion of the 'boundary' as an essential characteristic of the Roman garden.

目次

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Defining Garden Space Chapter 1: Setting the Framework Chapter 2: Who has the time? Virgil, Columella, and Hortus Poetry Chapter 3: Augustus' Garden Room? Re-Framing the Ara Pacis Augustae Chapter 4: Distinguit et Miscet: Framing Roman Villa Gardens Conclusion: Seneca's Thyestes and the Anti-Garden Notes Bibliography Index

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  • Ancient environments

    series editors Anna Collar, Esther Eidinow, Katharina Lorenz

    Bloomsbury Academic

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