Caroline Vout

The Hills of Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the cliché of 'the city of seven hills' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781107678712
• ISBN-10: 1107678714
• Artikelnr.: 43611523

Autorenporträt

Caroline Vout is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College and the Society of Antiquaries of London. She is a historian and art historian who publishes on a wide range of topics related to Greek and Roman art and its reception, Latin literature and Roman history and is the author of Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (Cambridge, 2007). In 2009 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her work on art history and in 2010 was the Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the journey to Rome
2. The lie of the land
3. Seven is the magic number
4. Rome, la città eterna
5. Painting by numbers
6. On top of the world
7. Signing off.