The Roman Villa In The Mediterranean Basin
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Author |
: Annalisa Marzano |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 650 |
Release |
: 2018-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316730614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316730611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin by : Annalisa Marzano
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.
Author |
: Marta De la Torre |
Publisher |
: Getty Publications |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1998-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780892364862 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0892364866 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Conservation of Archaeological Sites in the Mediterranean Region by : Marta De la Torre
One of the greatest challenges faced today by those responsible for ancient cultural sites is that of maintaining the delicate balance between conserving these fragile resources and making them available to increasing numbers of visitors. Tourism, unchecked development, and changing environmental conditions threaten significant historical sites throughout the world. These issues are among the topics dealt with in this book, which reports on the proceedings of an international conference on the conservation of classical sites in the Mediterranean region, organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The book includes chapters discussing management issues at three sites: Piazza Armerina, Sicily; Knossos, Crete; and Ephesus, Turkey. While visiting these sites, conference participants examined how issues raised at these locales can illuminate the challenges of management and conservation faced by complex heritage sites the world over. Additional chapters discuss such topics as the management of cultural sites, the reconstruction of ancient buildings, and ways of presenting and interpreting sites for today's visitors.
Author |
: J.T. Smith |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2012-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134705368 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134705360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roman Villas by : J.T. Smith
Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only the owner's wealth and number of servants. Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Roman and their social and economic development which introduces a new area in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale, allows the reader to compare the similarities and differences between house structure as well as effectively illustrating the arguments.
Author |
: Valerie McGuire |
Publisher |
: Transnational Italian Cultures |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2020-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800348004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800348002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Italy's Sea by : Valerie McGuire
For much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy's Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied imperial states, into the history of European colonialism. It takes a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa, Italy's Sea describes another set of colonial identities that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean, ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and urban planning, the book brings to life a history of mediterraneita or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture, one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our understanding of how contemporary Italy-as well as Greece-may imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today. --
Author |
: Timothy W. Potter |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520069757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520069756 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roman Italy by : Timothy W. Potter
A survey of Italy during the time of ancient Rome that brings together evidence from literary sources, inscriptions, and findings from archaeological excavations.
Author |
: John Morris |
Publisher |
: Phoenix |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0753806606 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780753806609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Londinium by : John Morris
At the time of the Roman invasion of Britain, the site of London was an untamed, uninhabited forest, and the victorious fleet founded Londinium, not as a garrison or a fortress, but as a centre of government. This is the story of earliest London from pre-Roman times to the age of Arthur.
Author |
: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 2017-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108327039 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108327036 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gardens of the Roman Empire by : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
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 |
: Annalisa Marzano |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2013-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199675623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199675627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harvesting the Sea by : Annalisa Marzano
Marzano explores the exploitation of marine resources in the Roman world and its role within the economy. Bringing together literary, epigraphic, archaeological, and legal sources, she shows that these marine resources were an important feature of the Roman economy and paralleled phenomena taking place in the Roman agricultural economy on land.
Author |
: Roger John Anthony Wilson |
Publisher |
: Peeters |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9042933887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789042933880 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Caddeddi on the Tellaro by : Roger John Anthony Wilson
The late Roman villa of Caddeddi, near Noto in south-east Sicily, first came to light over forty years ago. Built in the second half of the fourth century AD, it is chiefly known for its three figured mosaic pavements, which after careful restoration in Syracuse were returned to the site prior to its opening to the public in 2008. This book describes in detail these and other pavements at Caddeddi, and concludes that, as at the more famous villa of Casale near Piazza Armerina a generation before, they are likely to be the work of North African mosaicists fulfilling an overseas commission for the villa's owner. The book attempts to place the mosaics and the villa itself in their wider Sicilian and Mediterranean context, with discussion ranging over such topics as late Roman villas elsewhere in Sicily, the iconography of myth and personification, peacock-feather helmets, the participation of the military in the Roman animal trade, the parallels between the mosaic floors of Caddeddi and those of Roman North Africa, the development of a new Roman saddle type in the fourth century, and military footwear fashionable at the same time. Of particular note are the 197 illustrations, 184 of them in full colour, which highlight the vividness and vivacity, as well as the polychromatic variety, of these stunning late Roman mosaics.
Author |
: Alexis Belis |
Publisher |
: J. Paul Getty Museum |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1606064975 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781606064979 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum by : Alexis Belis
The mosaics in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum span the second through the sixth centuries AD and reveal the diversity of compositions found throughout the Roman Empire during this period. Elaborate floors of stone and glass tesserae transformed private dwellings and public buildings alike into spectacular settings of vibrant color, figural imagery, and geometric design. Scenes from mythology, nature, daily life, and spectacles in the arena enlivened interior spaces and reflected the cultural ambitions of wealthy patrons. This online catalogue documents all of the mosaics in the Getty Museum’s collection, presenting their artistry in new color photography as well as the contexts of their discovery and excavation across Rome's expanding empire—from its center in Italy to provinces in southern Gaul, North Africa, and ancient Syria. The free online edition of this open-access catalogue, available at www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/, includes zoomable high-resolution photography, embedded glossary terms and additional comparative images, and interactive maps drawn from the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book, CSV and JSON downloads of the object data from the catalogue, and JPG and PPT downloads of the main catalogue images.