Roman republican villas : architecture, context, and ideology /

Roman republican villas : architecture, context, and ideology / Jeffrey A. Becker and Nicola Terrenato, editors.

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Other Authors: Becker, Jeffrey A., 1976-, Terrenato, Nicola
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2012.
Series:Papers and monographs of the American Academy in Rome ; v. 32.
Subjects:
Cato, Marcus Porcius, > 234 B.C.-149 B.C. > De agri cultura.
Dwellings > Rome > History.
Architecture, Domestic > Rome > History.
Landscape architecture > Rome > History.
Rome > Antiquities.
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities, Roman.
Rome (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Table of Contents:
  • The early villa : Roman contributions to the development of a Greek prototype / Mario Torelli
  • The shepherd of the people : Varro on herding for the Villa Publica in De re rustica 2 / Carin M.C. Green
  • Villaculture / John Bodel
  • Cato's De agri cultura and the spectacle of expertise / Brendon Reay
  • The enigma of "Catonian" villas : the De agri cultura in the context of second-century, BC, Italian architecture / Nicola Terrenato
  • Republican villas in the suburbium of Rome / Rita Volpe
  • Polygonal masonry and republican villas? : the problem of the basis villae / Jeffrey A. Becker
  • Concluding remarks / Stephen L. Dyson.

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