Main entry:

Leach, Eleanor Winsor.

Title & Author:

The rhetoric of space : literary and artistic representations of landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome / Eleanor Winsor Leach.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1988.

Description:

xii, 493 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-482).
pt. 1. Spatial patterns: ch. 1. Words and pictures: Vergil's Aeneid and the Odyssey landscapes -- ch. 2. Loci et imagines: the development of topographical systems in Roman landscape -- ch. 3. Spatial patterns in Vergil's Georgics -- pt. 2. Two Augustan landscape genres: ch. 4. Sacral-idyllic landscapes -- ch. 5. Architectural landscapes and Augustan Rome -- pt. 3. Landscape and narrative: ch. 6. Reading continuous narrative -- ch. 7. Mythological ensembles in painting and literature -- ch. 8. Visual imagery and literary point of view.
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Summary:

The Romans were fascinated with landscape--with a love for the organization of space that can be seen as clearly in their pictorial arts as in their arrangement of public and private architecture. In this interdisciplinary work Eleanor Leach links the depiction of landscape in Roman literature and in Roman painting during a formative period of Roman art. In relating the two fields, she focuses on the response of audiences, particularly the way in which perceptions shaped by one of the arts are transferred to the other.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0691042373 (alk. paper)
9780691042374 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. Influence.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Latin literature History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Description (Rhetoric) History To 1500.
Space and time in literature.
Art and literature Rome.
Landscapes in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Landscapes in art.
Art, Roman.
Description (Rhetoric)
Littérature romaine Histoire et critique.
Paysage dans la littérature latine.
Paysage dans l'art.
Art romain.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Discours descriptif.
Paysages dans l'art.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Littérature latine Histoire et critique.
Art et littérature Rome.
Nature dans la littérature.
Art and literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Latin literature.
Latin poetry History and criticism.
Description (Rhetoric) Italy Rome.
Painting, Roman.
Art romain Thèmes, motifs.
Littérature latine Thèmes, motifs.
Art et littérature Antiquité.
Paysage Dans l'art.
Paysage Dans la littérature.
Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C.
Rome Histoire 510-30 av. J.-C. (République)
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43764
Call No.: ID:89-B3458
Status: Available