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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 | |
| 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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An ideal life: perceptions of the Roman countryside in visual and literary culture
Spencer, D., 25 Jun 2026, Roman Rural Archaeology: Society, Economy, and Culture. Tol, G. & Van Oyen, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 65-87 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Total immersion tropes: Environmental materiality and Roman world-formation
Spencer, D., 7 Aug 2025, Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity: From Narrative to Virtual Reality. Cole, E. K. (ed.). 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 59-78 19 p. (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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‘Piantare una scena’ nelle Georgiche di Virgilio
Translated title of the contribution :“PLANTING A SCENE” IN VIRGIL'S GEORGICS Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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At Home in Whose World? Habitation and Power in Roman Spatial Thinking
Spencer, D. (Keynote speaker)
10 Jun 2025Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
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Belonging to the land: Cultivation, curation, and memory
Spencer, D. (Invited speaker)
2025Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
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Towards, around, away from, amidst, between: Space syntax and what moves us
Spencer, D. (Keynote speaker)
23 Nov 2019Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
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