Dr Frederick Jones: 2 books
The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome
The Caged Bird and Other Art Forms
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on...
Virgil's Garden
The Nature of Bucolic Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and...