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Bezig met laden... Trees in Ancient Rome: Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Ancient Environments)door Andrew Fox
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Andrew Fox’s Trees in Ancient Rome joins a scholarly landscape already flush with trees. Ailsa Hunt, Rebecca Armstrong, Christopher Hallett, and others, have outlined an arboreal subject that transcends an older emphasis on trees as resources. Across Latin literature, archaeology, and monuments, Fox presents the Roman interaction with trees in atomistic fashion, rejecting an all-encompassing category of tree. Fox argues that Romans display an appreciation of trees that attends to an individual tree’s qualities, from its timber to its fruit, or to the distinct ways that certain trees enable action, such as the plane tree’s shade. Pompey’s Portico, for example, featured plane trees which cast their famous shadow, enabling a leisurely stroll that is so often celebrated with portico architecture. Across four chapters, Fox raises the question of the future of the ancient tree. What did trees help the Romans achieve? How can our histories illuminate this ever-present, and often elusive, vegetal subject? Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)
Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and Remus and year's later Rome was founded between two groves. As the city grew, neighbourhoods bore the names of groves and hills were known by the trees which grew atop them. From the 1st century BCE, triumphs included trees among their spoils and Rome's green cityscape grew, as did the challenges of finding room for trees within the congested city. This volume begins with an examination of the role of trees as repositories of human memory, lasting for several generations. It goes on to untangle the import of trees, and their role in the triumphal procession, before closing with a discussion of how trees could be grown in Rome's urban spaces. Drawing on a combination of literary, visual and archaeological sources, it reveals the rich variety of trees in evidence, and explores how they impacted, and were used to impact, life in the ancient city. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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