Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden

(Re)Framing the Hortus

Dr Victoria Austen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26522-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Victoria Austen is Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She received her PhD in Classics from King’s College London, UK.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Ancient Environments
Zusatzinfo	30 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-26522-5 / 1350265225
ISBN-13	978-1-350-26522-6 / 9781350265226
Zustand	Neuware