The latest publication in the scientific series Acta Finland
(number 52) of the Finnish Institute in Rome is based on the
Institute’s current research project (2021–2026). Edited by Maddalena
Bassani and Ria Berg in 2024, the volume includes articles in Italian
and English.
The book brings together the presentations from the international conference Local bristles – an ansie Roman verso il mondo natural – Roman anxieties towards nature,
held at the Finnish Institute in Rome at Villa Lante on May 26–27,
2022, in collaboration with the Università Iuav di Venezia. The
conference and the resulting publication focus on the relationship
between humans and nature in antiquity, with particular emphasis on the
experience of urban nature in the Roman imperial era.
Chapters
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The natural world in ancient man-made landscapes
Paolo Carafa
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The eruption of Etna in Virgil (Aen. 3, 570–84). A ‘textbook’ catastrophe
Alessio Ameduri
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Etna in the Breast. Ovid, Volcanoes, and the Violence of Erotic Desire
Leah O’hearn
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Poseidon and the ‘soft lands’. Aquatic anxieties and attempts to stabilize marshy lands
Giuseppe Lepore
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Inamoena Cappadocia. Inhospitable places and magical waters in Central Anatolia
Jacopo Turchetto
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The metaphor of the locus horridus in rhetorical manuals between visual impressions and sound perceptions
Francesco Berardi, Marco Presutti
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Lucus horridus. Emotional Responses to ‘Northern’ Holy Groves in Lucan and Tacitus
Antti Lampinen
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Dense night in the shadow of the force of the vows. Forest imagery and landscape description in the Rape of Deidamia in Statins’ Achilleid
Elina Pyy
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A shivering mankind alle water Padua. Nuove il Cippo Policefalo give this
Maddalena Bassani
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Lion Encounters and Hostile Environments in Lucan’s Pharsalia and Statius’ Thebaid
Miika Remahl
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And now, so much the rocks of the siren. Il mito di ulisse e le siren nella pittura parietal Romana
Eleonora Voltan
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Bringing the Wilderness into the Domus. Loca horrida in Roman Domestic Decor
Ria berg
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The horrid absence and happy return of the princeps. Nature in the Augustan elaboration between anxieties and rebirths
Simone Foresta
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Killer Creepers. The Uncanny of Nature in Dionysiac Roman Images
Stephanie Wyler
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Luca di Franco, Taming the horridus. The Phlegraean landscape goes from an imaginative sacred setting to an element of luxury
Francesca Mermati
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The Dog Cave in Agnano. An ancient locus horridus?
Marco Giglio
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Draco and the serpent cult in Roman North Africa
Paola Zanovello
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Rome’s Unquiet Ghost? The Death and Resurrection of Nero in Suetonius and Piranesi
Diana Spencer
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Epilogue: Horridus/Inamoenus from a Landscape Typology to a Way of Life?
Ermanno Malaspina
Copyright (c) 2024 Ria Berg, Maddalena Bassani; Paolo Carafa, Alessio Ameduri, Leah O’hearn, Giuseppe Lepore, Jacopo Turchetto, Francesco Berardi, Marco Presutti, Antti Lampinen, Elina Pyy; Maddalena Bassani; Nathaniel Fleury Solley, Miika Remahl, Eleonora Voltan, Ria Berg, Simone Foresta, Stephanie Wyler, Francesca Mermati, Marco Giglio, Paola Zanovello, Diana Spencer, Ermanno Malaspina
Details about the available publication format: PDF
ISBN-13 (15)
978-88-5491-553-4
Details about the available publication format: PDF
ISBN-13 (15)
978-88-5491-553-4
