Emotional volume and the little things that make Latin place

Diana Spencer

doi:10.1400/277489

Emotional volume and the little things that make Latin place

Diana Spencer

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Paesaggi domestici. L’esperienza della natura nelle case e nelle ville romane – Pompei, Ercolano e l’area vesuviana
Editors	Anna Anguissola, Marialaura Iadanza, Riccardo Olivitto
Publisher	L'Erma di Bretschneider
Pages	4-18
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9788891319593
ISBN (Print)	9788891319579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1400/277489
Publication status	Published - 2020

Publication series

Name	Studi e ricerche del Parco archeologico di Pompei
Publisher	L' Erma di Bretschneider
Volume	42
ISSN (Print)	2612-4750
ISSN (Electronic)	2610-9972

Keywords

somatics
perception
materiality
rome
pompeii
landscape
vision
sight

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Classics
Social Psychology

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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
Litterae aureae: Reading Monuments and Materiality in Augustan Rome
Spencer, D., 5 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) City of Senses. Betts, E. & Vetch, J. (eds.). Rome: Edizioni Quasar, (RomeScapes).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Rome's Unquiet Ghost? The Death and Resurrection of Nero in Suetonius and Piranesi
Spencer, D., Dec 2024, Locus Horridus: ansie romane verso il mondo naturale. Bassani, M. & Berg, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Rome: Instituti Romani Finlandiae, p. 295-312 17 p. (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae; vol. 52).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access
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Language and Authority in de Lingua Latina: Varro's Guide to Being Roman
Spencer, D., May 2019, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 424 p. (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Varro’s Roman Way: Metastasis and Etymology
Spencer, D., Mar 2018, The Production of Space in Latin Literature. Fitzgerald, W. & Spentzou, E. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 45-68
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

File
Aesthetic, sociological and exploitative attitudes to landscape in Greco-Roman literature, art and culture
Spencer, D., Jan 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. Williams, G. (ed.). Oxford University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity: Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 39
Spencer, D., 24 Feb 2011, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 252 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

At Home in Whose World? Habitation and Power in Roman Spatial Thinking
Spencer, D. (Keynote speaker)
10 Jun 2025
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Belonging to the land: Cultivation, curation, and memory
Spencer, D. (Invited speaker)
2025
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › 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
Metal and intellectual thought: Exploring the convergence between thinking/writing/experience in first-century BCE Latin texts
Spencer, D. (Invited speaker)
May 2019
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
On their mettles: First thoughts on metal and literary culture in the late Republic
Spencer, D. (Invited speaker)
Mar 2019
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Paesaggi domestici. L’esperienza della natura nelle case e nelle ville romane – Pompei, Ercolano e l’area vesuviana.
Spencer, D. (Keynote speaker)
27 Apr 2017
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
Imagined Landscapes of Campania
Spencer, D. (Invited speaker)
29 May 2014
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium

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Spencer, D. (2020). Emotional volume and the little things that make Latin place. In A. Anguissola, M. Iadanza, & R. Olivitto (Eds.), Paesaggi domestici. L’esperienza della natura nelle case e nelle ville romane – Pompei, Ercolano e l’area vesuviana (pp. 4-18). (Studi e ricerche del Parco archeologico di Pompei; Vol. 42). L'Erma di Bretschneider. https://doi.org/10.1400/277489

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Spencer, D 2020, Emotional volume and the little things that make Latin place. in A Anguissola, M Iadanza & R Olivitto (eds), Paesaggi domestici. L’esperienza della natura nelle case e nelle ville romane – Pompei, Ercolano e l’area vesuviana. Studi e ricerche del Parco archeologico di Pompei, vol. 42, L'Erma di Bretschneider, pp. 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1400/277489

Emotional volume and the little things that make Latin place. / Spencer, Diana.
Paesaggi domestici. L’esperienza della natura nelle case e nelle ville romane – Pompei, Ercolano e l’area vesuviana. ed. / Anna Anguissola; Marialaura Iadanza; Riccardo Olivitto. L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2020. p. 4-18 (Studi e ricerche del Parco archeologico di Pompei; Vol. 42).

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