The Archaeology of Gardens in the Roman Villa

Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth

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“…For the multivalency of the Roman garden, an expression of self-sufficiency or a deplorable example of luxury, see Myers 2018. On Rome's 'botanical imperialism', see Macaulay-Lewis 2008, Totelin 2012and Pollard 2009 platanus caelebs were leaving little room for the olive and the plough. 30 Pliny the Elder likewise weaves tropes of excess such as tyrants, banquets, and eunuchs into his account of the plane tree's importation into Rome from foreign climes (Nat.…”

Section: At Postquam Platanis Sterilem Praebentibus Umbrammentioning

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Nocet esse feracem: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Pseudo-Ovidian Nux

O’Hearn

2024

Eugesta

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The Nux depicts the complaints of a walnut tree, pelted with stones and beaten with rods when she bears fruit. Discussion of the Nux, however, has largely centred on its authorship. Recognising its deep engagement with Ovid’s work, this article sets aside the question of authorship and takes a critical ecofeminist approach to explore the poem’s concerns with fertility, nature, the female, and violence. It argues that the walnut tree is feminised and humanised so that her complaints that fertility brings pain and her criticism of trees who sabotage their fertility to be beautiful have meaning for Roman women, and in particular for those women living under the Principate. It aims to demonstrate that the Nux figures the domination of nature and the oppression of women as outcomes of the same harmful ideology.

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Section: At Postquam Platanis Sterilem Praebentibus Umbrammentioning

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Nocet esse feracem: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Pseudo-Ovidian Nux

O’Hearn

2024

Eugesta

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“…Consequently, the planting of such a tree in one's garden is, in fact, a transplanting of that conquered land. A garden, then, becomes not a mere collection of plants, but a collection of lands and their peoples (Macaulay‐Lewis, 2008; Marzano, 2014). Pliny also tells us that the enslaved and tribute paying balsam trees are now Roman political subjects, and equally important, it is this new political affiliation that has fostered a greater level of fecundity.…”

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Warm Soil, Westerly Wind, and Wet Feet: Feeling and Measuring Ecological Time in the Roman World

Tally‐Schumacher

2023

GeoHealth

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Although climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation are contemporary problems, these are also challenges with deep historic roots in antiquity. 2,000 years ago, during the Roman Climate Optimum, a period of unusually warm, wet, and stable temperatures in the Mediterranean from roughly 200 BCE to 150 CE, the Romans altered the natural environment so greatly that they produced a level of pollution that was unparalleled until the Industrial Revolution. It is precisely in this contradictory time of unusually productive growth and destruction that we discover a blossoming of textual and visual ecological calendars illustrating how the Romans experienced the changing Mediterranean seasons. Roman agricultural treatises instruct us on specific agricultural tasks based on celestial movement, the arrival of particular winds, and on corporeal sensations, such as the warmth of the soil. Literary texts from the period portray kinship and shared corporeality between farmers and plants, with parent farmers listening to and assisting plant‐children in achieving their desires. The concept of measuring time by means of the human body and its sensations is most explicit in the agricultural mosaics of the Late Roman period, which depict enslaved workers laboring, sweating, stomping, plowing, and performing seasonal tasks. While much of the conceptualization of indigenous ecological calendars is framed within the context of modern states, juxtaposing ancient predecessors and contemporary practices offers a new perspective on this topic.

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“…En las antiguas culturas del mundo, el establecimiento de jardines en las casas habitación de las clases aristocráticas, gobernantes y económicamente pudientes fue una práctica frecuente, así como en los templos y lugares sagrados. Ejemplos de lo anterior se han documentado para las antiguas ciudades de Atenas, Roma y la zona de influencia de su imperio (Albardonedo, 2015;Hartswick, 2017;Macaulay-Lewis, 2017). Así como para la Ciudad de México Tenochtitlan, pues el Palacio de Moctezuma tenía bellos jardines y hasta un zoológico que asombró a los conquistadores (Nutall, 1920;Díaz del Castillo, 1979).…”

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La cubierta arbórea de la Alameda Central de la Ciudad de México: 1ª parte

Meza

2022

RMCF

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En enero de 1592, Luis de Velasco, virrey de la Nueva España, solicitó al Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de México la construcción de un lugar que sirviera para el recreo y esparcimiento de los habitantes de la capital del virreinato. En seguimiento a dicha petición, se seleccionó un sitio al poniente de la ciudad que se denominó Alameda Central y en abril del mismo año se plantaron alrededor de mil árboles de las especies Populus alba, P. nigra y Alnus sp. La Alameda de la Ciudad de México cumplió desde su creación con todos los criterios qué en la actualidad se definen para un área verde urbana, entre los que destacan que el sitio sea de propiedad de la ciudad, se encuentre dentro de sus límites geográficos y sea de uso público para el disfrute de sus habitantes. En los años iniciales se presentaron muchas dificultades para el establecimiento y consolidación del arbolado, debido principalmente a inundaciones periódicas y la salinidad del Lago de Texcoco. Conforme pasaron los siglos las condiciones ambientales de la cuenca, la ciudad y la alameda fueron cambiando, lo que implicó retos permanentes para su continuidad. Se comentan las actividades que se llevaron a cabo en torno a esta situación durante el virreinato, el período post Independencia y el Segundo Imperio Mexicano, entre las que destaca la plantación de diferentes especies como sería el caso de Salix sp., Fraxinus uhdei, Taxodium mucronatum y posteriormente Ligustrum lucidum, Cupressus lusitánica y Eucalyptus sp.

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The Archaeology of Gardens in the Roman Villa

Cited by 4 publications

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Nocet esse feracem: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Pseudo-Ovidian Nux

Nocet esse feracem: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Pseudo-Ovidian Nux

Warm Soil, Westerly Wind, and Wet Feet: Feeling and Measuring Ecological Time in the Roman World

La cubierta arbórea de la Alameda Central de la Ciudad de México: 1ª parte

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