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Author Vout, Caroline.

Title The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city / Caroline Vout.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the journey to Rome -- The map -- The itinerary -- The 'take home' message -- The lie of the land -- The seven hills of Rome, republic and empire -- After the high Roman fashion -- The renaissance of the seven hills -- Nineteenth and twentieth-century encounters -- Seven is the magic number -- An invention of tradition -- The potency and possibility of the number seven -- Varro's contribution to the story -- Before the mountains were settled -- Rome, la città eterna -- The seven hills and the ambitions of empire -- Dizzy heights under the Flavians -- The rise and fall of Rome in late antiquity -- Postscript -- Painting by numbers -- The limits of representation -- The seven hills of renaissance artists and patrons -- Nineteenth-century ways of seeing -- On top of the world -- Villas and gardens -- In the thick of it -- Getting the measure of the whole of Rome -- Framing a view from the Capitoline or Palatine -- The imperial gaze -- Divine omniscience -- Signing off -- The history of an idea -- Geography as history.
Summary Explores the cliché of 'the city of seven hills' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.
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Subject Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel.
Rome -- History.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Other Form: Print version: Vout, Caroline. Hills of Rome. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107025974 (DLC) 2012012765 (OCoLC)782128096
ISBN 9781139569323 (electronic book)
1139569325 (electronic book)
9781139198974 (electronic book)
1139198971 (electronic book)
9781139572880
1139572881
9781107025974
1107025974
Standard No. 9786613951229
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