Pompeii And The Roman Villa

Author : Carol C. Mattusch
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500514368
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pompeii and the Roman Villa written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2008 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the Bay of Naples as a popular vacation spot in ancient Rome evaluates the picturesque area as a villa site for numerous emperors and a retreat of choice for the artistic community, in a lavishly illustrated volume that features reproductions of period artwork.

Author : Annalisa Marzano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316730611
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin written by Annalisa Marzano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691244154
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture, he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private, family and outsiders, work and leisure. Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor, man and woman, master and slave? What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form? How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure? How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers? Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman."

Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674416538
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Pompeii written by Ingrid D. Rowland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations. The experience of Pompeii always reflects a particular time and sensibility, says Ingrid Rowland. From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town explores the fascinating variety of these different experiences, as described by the artists, writers, actors, and others who have toured the excavated site. The city's houses, temples, gardens--and traces of Vesuvius's human victims--have elicited responses ranging from awe to embarrassment, with shifting cultural tastes playing an important role. The erotic frescoes that appalled eighteenth-century viewers inspired Renoir to change the way he painted. For Freud, visiting Pompeii was as therapeutic as a session of psychoanalysis. Crown Prince Hirohito, arriving in the Bay of Naples by battleship, found Pompeii interesting, but Vesuvius, to his eyes, was just an ugly version of Mount Fuji. Rowland treats readers to the distinctive, often quirky responses of visitors ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain to Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven throughout a narrative lush with detail and insight is the thread of Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii, where she has returned many times since first visiting in 1962.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847650643
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pompeii written by Mary Beard and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.

Author : Alfred Frazer
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780924171598
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Villa written by Alfred Frazer and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Trust presents an architectural drawing of a Roman villa as it appeared during the time of the Roman Emperor Trajan (53-117), who ruled from 98-117. The J. Paul Getty Trust provides the drawing as part of ArtsEdNet.

Author : Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108327036
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens of the Roman Empire written by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hélène Dessales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782380500240
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Villa of Diomedes written by Hélène Dessales and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4e de couverture indique : Parmi les tout premiers bâtiments fouillés sur le site de Pompéi, entre 1771 et 1775, la Villa de Diomède constitue l'un des édifices les plus décrits et représentés par les voyageurs du Grand Tour. Engagé en 2012, un programme pluridisciplinaire a eu pour objectif de restituer toute son évolution, conjuguant la fabrique matérielle d'une villa romaine et sa fabrique imaginaire contemporaine. Il s'agissait d'identifier et de modéliser les différents chantiers de construction qui en ont transformé le bâtiment, de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Pour ce faire, différentes compétences se sont associées : histoire des fouilles et des restaurations, archéologie de la construction, bases de données, systèmes d'information géographique, géophysique, ingénierie des structures, imagerie scientifique et modélisation 3D. Les trente-trois contributions réunies rendent compte de ces regards croisés sur l'entière fabrique de cette villa singulière, envisagée sur la longue durée.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744411
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fires of Vesuvius written by Mary Beard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was—more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol?—and what it can tell us about “ordinary” life there. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. Recently, Pompeii has been a focus of pleasure and loss: from Pink Floyd’s memorable rock concert to Primo Levi’s elegy on the victims. But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. This book shows us how much more and less there is to Pompeii than a city frozen in time as it went about its business on 24 August 79.

Author : Hélène Dessales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Villa of Diomedes. The Making of a Roman Villa in Pompeii written by Hélène Dessales and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parmi les tout premiers bâtiments fouillés sur le site de Pompéi, entre 1771 et 1775, la Villa de Diomède constitue l'un des édifices les plus décrits et représentés par les voyageurs du Grand Tour. Engagé en 2012, un programme pluridisciplinaire a eu pour objectif de restituer toute son évolution, conjuguant la fabrique matérielle d'une villa romaine et sa fabrique imaginaire contemporaine. Il s'agissait d'identifier et de modéliser les différents chantiers de construction qui en ont transformé le bâtiment, de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours.0Pour ce faire, différentes compétences se sont associées : histoire des fouilles et des restaurations, archéologie de la construction, bases de données, systèmes d'information géographique, géophysique, ingénierie des structures, imagerie scientifique et modélisation 3D. Les trente-trois contributions réunies rendent compte de ces regards croisés sur l'entière fabrique de cette villa singulière, envisagée sur la longue durée.