Aesthetic, sociological and exploitative attitudes to landscape in Greco-Roman literature, art and culture

Diana Spencer

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.013.121

Aesthetic, sociological and exploitative attitudes to landscape in Greco-Roman literature, art and culture

Diana Spencer

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

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Abstract

This article introduces and discusses ancient and contemporary approaches to landscape, and proposes model readings for their evaluation. Perceptions of landscape in the Greco-Roman world were strongly associated with cultivation and human intervention. In order better to understand how and why aesthetic interest, sentiment, mood, and movement can also be significant, this article explores what makes for ‘improvement’ and value in landscape. It also investigates how contemporary theory offers new ways of evaluating ancient depictions of landscape and responses to the natural environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oxford Handbooks Online
Subtitle of host publication	Scholarly Research Reviews
Editors	Gareth Williams
Publisher	Oxford University Press
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.013.121
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - Jan 2017

Keywords

landscape
classical antiquity
imperialism
agriculture
environment
nature
place
topography
ecocriticism
architecture
aesthetics
art
cultivation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Classics
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)

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4 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Article

An ideal life: perceptions of the Roman countryside in visual and literary culture
Spencer, D., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Roman Rural Archaeology. Tol, G. & Van Oyen, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Total immersion tropes: Environmental materiality and Roman world-formation
Spencer, D., 19 Mar 2024, (Accepted/In press) Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity: From Narrative to Virtual Reality. Cole, E. K. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
‘Piantare una scena’ nelle Georgiche di Virgilio
Spencer, D., 2024, In: Scienze dell’Antichità. 30, 1, p. 305-316
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Language, life and metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman backstory
Spencer, D., 24 Aug 2023, Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination. Sissa, G. & Martelli, F. (eds.). 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 183-199 17 p. (Ancient Environments).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Emotional volume and the little things that make Latin place
Spencer, D., 2020, Paesaggi domestici. L’esperienza della natura nelle case e nelle ville romane – Pompei, Ercolano e l’area vesuviana. Anguissola, A., Iadanza, M. & Olivitto, R. (eds.). L'Erma di Bretschneider, p. 4-18 15 p. (Studi e ricerche del Parco archeologico di Pompei; vol. 42).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

1 Conference, workshop or symposium

Towards, around, away from, amidst, between: Space syntax and what moves us
Spencer, D. (Keynote speaker)
23 Nov 2019
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium

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Aesthetic, sociological and exploitative attitudes to landscape in Greco-Roman literature, art and culture

Abstract

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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Research output

An ideal life: perceptions of the Roman countryside in visual and literary culture

Total immersion tropes: Environmental materiality and Roman world-formation

‘Piantare una scena’ nelle Georgiche di Virgilio

Language, life and metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman backstory

Emotional volume and the little things that make Latin place

Activities

Towards, around, away from, amidst, between: Space syntax and what moves us

Cite this