Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Becker, Jeffrey A., 1976-
• Terrenato, Nicola.

Description

146 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Papers and monographs of the American Academy in Rome ; v. 32

Uniform Title

Papers and monographs of the American Academy in Rome ; v. 32.

Subjects

• Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C > De agri cultura
• Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C
• Rome (Italy) > Social life and customs
• Rome > Social life and customs
• Rome (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Rome > Antiquities
• Rome (Italy) > Antiquities, Roman
• Landscape architecture > Rome > History
• Architecture, Domestic > Rome > History
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Dwellings > Rome > History

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780472117703 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 047211770X (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

• 2011011852
• 40021085024

OCLC

• ocn687681114
• SCSB-5672811

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries