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III Those Happy Fields? DIY Landscaping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2010

Diana Spencer
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Chapter II outlined how literary pastoral scenography makes for an often visually delightful but also heavily symbolic ethnoscape, ideally suited to the exploration of red-hot political, civic, and socio-cultural issues. The signs of pastoral provide props and a set for the rustic, artful, and occasionally (naïvely) politicized figures that populate and give Roman meaning to an imaginary and leisurely rural world, superficially very different from daily life. This chapter explores how pastoral imagery can also help us to think about a different aspect of what made for enjoyable Roman space: the sight of a productive agricultural landscape.

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New Surveys in the Classics , Volume 39: Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity , 2009 , pp. 31 - 46
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2010 

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