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Trees in Ancient Rome - Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,908
Discovery Miles 29 080
Trees in Ancient Rome - Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Hardcover): Andrew Fox

Trees in Ancient Rome - Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Hardcover)

Andrew Fox

Series: Ancient Environments

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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.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ancient Environments
Release date: August 2023
Authors: Andrew Fox
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-23780-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Environmental archaeology
Books > History > General
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LSN: 1-350-23780-9
Barcode: 9781350237803

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