Description
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious work, Kim Hartswick undertakes the first comprehensive history of the Gardens of Sallust from Roman times to the present, as well as its influence on generations of scholars, intellectuals, and archaeologists.
Trade ReviewIn several aspects this book will be a standard for the next decades. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Topography and History
- Location and Topography
- Boundaries
- The Original Owner: C. Sallustius Crispus
- Inheritors of Sallust's Gardens
- Imperial Properties
- Plantings in Garden Estates
- The Hortus as Self-Display
- Post-antique Period
- The Ludovisi
- Josef Spithoever
- The 1880's "Building Fever" and Its Aftermath
- Part II. The Architecture of the Gardens
- The Destailleur Plan and Pertinent Ancient Remains
- The "Vestibule" in the Piazza Sallustio
- An Obelisk
- Wall(s) of Niches
- A Cryptoporticus
- The So-called Circus of Flora
- Temples of Venus
- Part III. Sculptural Finds
- Artemis, Iphigenia, and a Hind
- Niobids
- Gauls
- The World of Dionysos
- "Nymphs" and Candelabra
- The Ludovisi and Boston "Thrones"
- Ludovisi "Throne": Discovery and Early Theories
- Boston "Throne": Discovery and Early Reports
- Use and Reuse
- Egyptian Sculptures
- Sculptures Found in 1888 Near the Via Boncompagni
- Orestes and Electra
- Addendum: The Templum Gentis Flaviae and the Three Temples of Fortune
- Afterword
- Notes
- Abbreviations of Periodicals and Series
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Illustration Credits
- Index
