Guy P. R. Metraux: Ancient Roman Villas

Cover: 9781606069370 | Ancient Roman Villas | The Essential Sourcebook | Guy P. R. Metraux

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This authoritative compendium of newly translated primary sources reveals ancient Roman attitudes on every aspect of villas, from selection of place and construction activities to day-to-day management and lived experiences. While the term villa is generic today, its meaning extended across the entirety of ancient Roman life: villas supplied food, oil, and wine to towns and cities and produced raw materials for craft industries and building construction. Villas were also venues for pleasure, relaxation, and the cultivation of friendships and the mind. Many were known for their spectacular sites, architecture, decoration, and furnishings. They came to be ubiquitous throughout ancient Rome's European and Mediterranean rural hegemony. This volume compiles a wealth of newly translated Latin and ancient Greek sources--treatises, letters, poems, histories, biographies, and other works of literary art--to vividly convey the architectural, economic, social, political, and cultural significance of ancient Roman villas, from their Greek antecedents through the early Christian period. Thematic chapters reveal ancient Roman attitudes on villa architecture, agricultural operations, and the practices of buying, building, and decorating villas as well as entertaining and pursuing leisure there. References to family, gender relations, and the lives of enslaved persons aim to situate, if only indirectly, a broad range of experiences within villas. Supplemented by generous commentaries, copious annotation, a comprehensive bibliography, and a glossary, this definitive sourcebook equips scholars and students alike for further research and makes for fascinating reading.

Über den Autor

Guy P. R. Métraux is professor emeritus in the Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University in Toronto.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Architektur
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781606069370
ISBN-10:	1606069373
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Guy P. R. Métraux
Redaktion:	Metraux, Guy P. R.
Hersteller:	Getty Trust Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	258 x 181 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Guy P. R. Metraux
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.04.2025
Gewicht:	1,338 kg