Giesecke Annette L. - The Epic City Urbanism Utopia And The Garden In Ancient Greece And Rome - Paperback Environment Description: Magnificent

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Geraldine Pinch explores the cultural and historical background behind a wide variety of sources and objects from Cleopatra's Needle and Tutankhamun's golden statue to a story on papyrus of the gods misbehaving

Domenico Zipoli Frescobaldi

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Giesecke Annette L. - The Epic City Urbanism Utopia And The Garden In Ancient Greece And Rome - Paperback Environment Description: MagnificentBinding: Paperback Description: Restraining and taming Nature was fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Classical Athens with her utilitarian view of Nature exemplified this ideal which also informed the urban endeavors of Rome and was expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens and through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature. Title: The Epic City Urbanism Utopia And The Garden In Ancient Greece And Rome