Trees in Ancient Rome

Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate

Dr Andrew Fox (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23780-3 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and Remus and year’s later Rome was founded between two groves. As the city grew, neighbourhoods bore the names of groves and hills were known by the trees which grew atop them. From the 1st century BCE, triumphs included trees among their spoils and Rome’s green cityscape grew, as did the challenges of finding room for trees within the congested city.

This volume begins with an examination of the role of trees as repositories of human memory, lasting for several generations. It goes on to untangle the import of trees, and their role in the triumphal procession, before closing with a discussion of how trees could be grown in Rome’s urban spaces. Drawing on a combination of literary, visual and archaeological sources, it reveals the rich variety of trees in evidence, and explores how they impacted, and were used to impact, life in the ancient city.

Andrew Fox is an Early Career Research Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on the role of nature in the urban environment of ancient Rome, combining literature, art, and archaeology to understand the city as a whole.

1. Trees in Urban Spaces: An Introduction
2. Memory and Trees
3. Bringing Trees to Rome
4. Trees in the Triumph
5. Keeping Trees in the City
6. A New Leaf

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Ancient Environments
Zusatzinfo	13 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-23780-9 / 1350237809
ISBN-13	978-1-350-23780-3 / 9781350237803
Zustand	Neuware