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Book Roman Villas

    Book Details:
  • Author : J.T. Smith
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-10-12
  • ISBN : 1134705352
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Roman Villas written by J.T. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only the owner's wealth and number of servants. Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Roman and their social and economic development which introduces a new area in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale, allows the reader to compare the similarities and differences between house structure as well as effectively illustrating the arguments.

Book The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin

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.

Book Roman Villas in Central Italy

Download or read book Roman Villas in Central Italy written by Annalisa Marzano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which was awarded Honorable Mention and a Silver Medal from the Premio Romanistico Internationazionale Gérard Boulvert, investigates the socio-economic role of elite villas in Roman Central Italy drawing on both documentary sources and material evidence. Through the composite picture emerging from the juxtaposition of literary texts and archaeological evidence, the book traces elite ideological attitudes and economic behavior, caught between what was morally acceptable and the desire to invest capital intelligently. The analysis of the biases affecting the application of modern historiographical models to the interpretation of the archaeology frames the discussion on the identification of slave quarters in villas and the putative second century crisis of the Italian economy. The book brings an innovative perspective to the debate on the villa-system and the decline of villas in the imperial period.

Book Houses  Villas  and Palaces in the Roman World

Download or read book Houses Villas and Palaces in the Roman World written by Alexander G. McKay and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-05-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating study of ancient Roman architecture, classics scholar Alexander McKay examines simple houses, mansions, estates and palatial buildings, interior furnishings, and gardens--revealing that Roman civilization was astonishingly similar to our own. He also discusses the conditions of life in the Roman provinces. 153 illustrations.

Book Roman Villas in Central Italy

Download or read book Roman Villas in Central Italy written by Annalisa Marzano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on documentary sources and archaeological evidence this book offers a socio-economic history of elite villas in Roman Central Italy and brings a new perspective to the debate on the slave-based villa system and the crisis of Italian villas in the imperial period.

Book Roman Republican Villas

Download or read book Roman Republican Villas written by Jeffrey A. Becker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multidisciplinary essays on early villa culture and architecture in Republican Italy

Book Pompeii and the Roman Villa

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.

Book The Houses of Roman Italy  100 B C    A D  250

Download or read book The Houses of Roman Italy 100 B C A D 250 written by John R. Clarke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Extensively documented with well-chosen, good quality photographs, Clarke's book effectively surveys these representative examples from the Late Republic to the Late Empire, illustrating the shift in the agendas of decoration as well as in the patterns of the lives played out behind closed doors within these highly charged domestic interiors."—Richard Brilliant, author of Visual Narratives: Storytelling in Etruscan & Roman Art "An enlightening and engaging walk through Roman cultural history. . . .This book will be essential to anyone interested in the classical past, in artistic ensembles, or in the experience of architecture."—Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles "Real experts in Roman painting are few. This book should be very welcome to Roman art historians and social historians wanting to present this material to their students."—Eleanor Winsor Leach, author of The Rhetoric of Space

Book An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age

Download or read book An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age written by Thomas Moule and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roman Villa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred Frazer
  • Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
  • Release : 1998-01-29
  • ISBN : 9780924171598
  • Pages : 132 pages

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: This edited volume, based on the first Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture, held at the University of Pennsylvania in April 1990, focuses on the theme of the well-appointed Roman country house. Using archaeological and textual evidence, the chapters address issues of villa composition, economy, and society. The volume also explores the possible reasons that Greeks did not embrace the villa lifestyle as the Romans so eagerly did. Finally, this book provides a promising foundation for future studies of the nature of the villa phenomenon. Contributors: Lisa Fentress, Chrystina Häuber, Adolf Hoffmann, Ann Kuttner, Hans Lauter, Guy Metraux, Richard Neudecker, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Symposium Series 9 University Museum Monograph, 101

Book Villa Landscapes in the Roman North

Download or read book Villa Landscapes in the Roman North written by Nico Roymans and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monografie over onderzoek naar Romeinse villa's en hun omgeving in de noordelijke provincies van het Romeinse Rijk.

Book Life in a Roman Villa

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  • Author : Jane Shuter
  • Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781403458308
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Life in a Roman Villa written by Jane Shuter and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing photographs of artifacts and Roman ruins, this history examines life in an ancient Roman villa with a timeline, illustrations, and a glossary.

Book Bignor Roman Villa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr Miles Russell
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2015-05-04
  • ISBN : 0750964782
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Bignor Roman Villa written by Dr Miles Russell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered in 1811, Bignor is one of the richest and most impressive villas in Britain, its mosaics ranking among the finest in north-western Europe. Opened to the public for the first time in 1814, the site also represents one of Britain's earliest tourist attractions, remaining in the hands of the same family, the Tuppers, to this day. This book sets out to explain the villa, who built it, when, how it would have been used and what it meant within the context of the Roman province of Britannia. It also sets out to interpret the remains, as they appear today, explaining in detail the meaning of the fine mosaic pavements and describing how the villa was first found and explored and the conservation problems facing the site in the twenty-first century. Now, after 200 years, the remarkable story of Bignor Roman Villa is told in full in this beautifully illustrated book.

Book The Roman Villa

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Percival
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520346483
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book The Roman Villa written by John Percival and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roman Villa at Maasbracht

Download or read book The Roman Villa at Maasbracht written by W. K. Vos and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Dutch archaeological community, the Roman Villa of Maasbracht has become famous for the beautiful remains of murals that have survived to this day. Almost all of this material was found in the infill of the stone cellar, a veritable time capsule that has been excavated with much patience and care. The first field campaign in 1981 consisted of some four trial trenches excavated by members of the local archaeological society. These yielded amongst others foundation trenches of walls and floors of mortar and rubble from the Roman period. This was in 1982 cause for the State Service for Arc.

Book Lyde Green Roman Villa  Emersons Green  South Gloucestershire

Download or read book Lyde Green Roman Villa Emersons Green South Gloucestershire written by Matthew S. Hobson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman villa at Lyde Green was excavated between mid-2012 and mid-2013 along with its surroundings and antecedent settlement. The results of the stratigraphic analysis are given here, along with specialist reports on the human remains, pottery (including thin sections), ceramic building material, small finds, coinage and iron-working waste.