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Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity. : Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 39

Interdisciplinary scope (identifying, refining a subject hitherto unconsolidated in Classics) and the generation of a complex methodology make this monograph exceptional, delivering a distinctive, unprecedented way of understanding Roman landscape. To develop this theoretical framework required significant research outside of classics (spanning memory studies, cultural geography, post-classical art history, space-theory, cognitive linguistics). The identification of an original, multi-genre body of texts (literary, material cultural) against which the monograph could test and apply the analytical framework, delivers an unparalleled grouping entwining mainstream canon (e.g. Virgil), rarely read authors (Columella), and archaeological sites/frescoes (in particular, the little studied ‘Farnesina’ frescoes).