Rus ‘Becomes’ Urbs: Hard and Soft Landscape Elements in the Gardens of Pompeii

From the late Republic to early Imperial period, the Roman garden occupied a liminal space between the notions of rus and urbs, characterised as the ‘cultural faultline’ by Spencer in her study of Roman landscape in 2006 (p.246). During this period, horti came to typify permeable boundaries between...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jessica Venner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Classicists 2021-01-01
Series:New Classicists
Subjects:
rus
Online Access:https://www.newclassicists.com/journals?lightbox=dataItem-kki7jkk2