Giesecke, Annette.

The epic city : urbanism, utopia, and the garden in ancient Greece and Rome / Annette Lucia Giesecke.

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

xiv, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Hellenic studies ; 21

"As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of the Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's center lay two walled cities, one at war and one at peace, surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. It is this ideal that Classical Athens, with its utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified. In a city lacking pleasure gardens, it was particularly worthy of note when Epicurus created his garden oasis within the dense urban fabric.
The disastrous results of extreme anthropocentrism would promote an essentially nostalgic desire to break down artificial barriers between humanity and Nature. This new ideal, vividly expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens and also through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature, informed the urban endeavors of Rome."--Jacket.

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Gardens Greece History.
Gardens Symbolic aspects Greece History.
Gardens Rome.
Gardens Symbolic aspects Rome.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Grèce Histoire.
Jardins Rome.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Rome.
Antiquities.
Gardens.
Gardens Symbolic aspects.
Utopier i litteraturen.
Trädgårdar i litteraturen historia Grekland Rom antiken.
Städer i litteraturen historia Grekland Rom antiken.
Latinsk litteratur analys och tolkning.
Grekisk litteratur analys och tolkning.
Greece Antiquities.
Rome Antiquities.
Grèce Antiquités.
Rome Antiquités.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)

History.

Hellenic studies ; 21.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 255578
Cote: BIB 185807
Statut: Disponible