Description: Epic City : Urbanism, Utopia, And the Garden in Ancient Greece And Rome, Paperback by Giesecke, Annette L., ISBN 0674023749, ISBN-13 9780674023741, Brand New, Free shipping in the US As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of the Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's center lay two walled cities, one at war and one at peace, surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. It is this ideal that Classical Athens, with its utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified. In a city lacking pleasure gardens, it was particularly worthy of note when Epicurus created his garden oasis within the dense urban fabric. The disastrous results of extreme anthropocentrism would promote an essentially nostalgic desire to break down artificial barriers between humanity and Nature. This new ideal, vividly expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens and also through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature, informed the urban endeavors of Rome.
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Book Title: Epic City : Urbanism, Utopia, And the Garden in Ancient Greece An
Number of Pages: 220 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Epic City : Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome
Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Ancient / Rome, Ancient / Greece
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Annette L. Giesecke
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Hellenic Studies Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
