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The Epic City : Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome

by: Giesecke, A.L.

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Category: Ancient Topography / Geography / History
Code: 2941
ISBN-13: 9780674023741 / 978-0-674-02374-1
ISBN-10: 0674023749 / 0-674-02374-9
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2007
Publication Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Binding: Paper
Pages: 204
Book Condition: New

 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

Homer's Eutoplis ; Greece and the Garden ; Greece and the Garden ; Rome and the reinvention of paradise ; Nostalgia and Virgil's pastoral dream

Series:
Hellenic studies, 21

xiv, 204 s. : illustrations

 

 
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