Roman republican villas : architecture, context, and ideology

Publication Data

• Title Roman republican villas : architecture, context, and ideology
• Contributors Jeffrey A. Becker, Nicola Terrenato
• Publisher University of Michigan Press
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Architecture, Domestic :: Rome :: History
• Dwellings :: Rome :: History
• Landscape architecture :: Rome :: History
• Rome (Italy) :: Antiquities, Roman
• Rome (Italy) :: Buildings, structures, etc.
• Rome (Italy) :: Social life and customs
• Rome :: Antiquities
• Rome :: History :: Republic, 265-30 B.C.
• Rome :: Social life and customs
• Rome (Italy)
• Rome

Roman republican villas : architecture, context, and ideology. ISBN 9780472117703. Published by University of Michigan Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.