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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel.
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Rome -- History.
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Rome (Empire) |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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Other Form: |
Print version: Vout, Caroline. Hills of Rome. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107025974 (DLC) 2012012765 (OCoLC)782128096 |
ISBN |
9781139569323 (electronic book) |
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1139569325 (electronic book) |
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9781139198974 (electronic book) |
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1139198971 (electronic book) |
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9781139572880 |
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1139572881 |
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9781107025974 |
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1107025974 |
Standard No. |
9786613951229 |
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40021710605 |
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