Porticus Pompeiana:<i>a new perspective on the first public park of ancient Rome</i>

Gleason, Kathryn

doi:10.1080/01445170.1994.10412494

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“…Russell 2016: 172. 77 Grimal 1984Gleason 1994;Kuttner 1999: 346-9. 78 On gardens and conditions in the city : Meier 1982: 151-2;Grimal 1984: 58;Scobie 1986;Boatwright 1998: 72; Wallace-Hadrill 1998; Davies 2012b.…”

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A Republican Dilemma: City or State? Or, the Concrete Revolution Revisited

Davies¹

2017

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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In a well-known passage, the Greek historian Polybius, writing in the mid-second century BC, attributes Rome's success as a republic to a perfect balance of power between its constituent elements, army, senate and people (Histories 6.11); and indeed, the Republic's long survival was an achievement worth explaining. On another note, over a century later, Livy remarked how Republican Rome, with its rambling street plan and miscellany of buildings, compared unfavourably with the magnificent royal cities of the eastern Mediterranean; he put this down to hasty rebuilding after a great Gallic conflagration around 390 BC. Few scholars now accept his explanation. A handful of scholars argue for underlying rationales, usually when setting up the early city as a foil for its transformation under Augustus and subsequent emperors, and their conclusions tend towards characterizing the city's design as an unintended corollary to the annual turnover of magistrates. This article, likewise, argues for the role of government in the city's appearance; but it contends that the state of Republican urbanism was deliberate. A response, of sorts, to both ancient authors' observations, it addresses how provisions to ensure equilibrium in one of the Republic's components, the senatorial class, in the interests of preserving the res publica, came at a vital cost to the city's architectural evolution. These provisions took the form of intentional constraints (on time and money), to prevent élite Romans from building like, and thus presenting themselves as, Mediterranean monarchs. Painting with a broad chronological stroke, it traces the tension between the Roman Republic in its ideal state and the physical city, exploring the strategies élite Romans developed to work within the constraints. Only when unforeseen factors weakened the state's power to self-regulate could the built city flourish and, in doing so, further diminish the state. Many of these factors — such as increased wealth in the second century and the first-century preponderance of special commands — are known; to these, this article argues, should be added the development of concrete.

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A Republican Dilemma: City or State? Or, the Concrete Revolution Revisited

Davies¹

2017

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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“…The first public park of ancient Rome, opened in 55 BCE, consisted of a porticus (colonnade) surrounding a nemus (sacred grove) with avenues of plane trees and a parkland temple precinct dedicated to the goddess Venus. The park proved so popular that, by the first century AD, the word 'porticus' was being used to describe all the urban parks of central Rome and this particular porticus was similar to the lavish suburban horti (gardens) of wealthy Roman generals on the outskirts of the city (Gleason 1994) In their recent form botanic gardens more closely resemble the grandiose gardens of antiquity than the medicinal botanic gardens of the Italian Renaissance.…”

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The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy

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Spencer²

2016

Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany

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“…A number of scholars in various fields have studied how space is manipulated to control the spectators’ vision. In the context of ancient Rome, for example, Gleason (1994) demonstrates that Pompey’s portico (built in 1 BCE) was attached to the theater building not only to provide protection but, more important, to choreograph their visual perception. The built environment is also often designed to facilitate surveillance in a social context, as shown in Mitchell’s work (1992) on 19th-century Egypt.…”

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Vision and Gendered Space: Making Women Invisible in Yogyakarta Sultanate Palace

Aryanti

2016

Space and Culture

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This article investigates the gender values prescribed through the spatial arrangements and lived bodily practices within the Sultanate palace of Yogyakarta (Indonesia, 1756), which makes women and their space invisible to the public. Reflecting on histories of women’s invisibility and drawing on ethnographic data consisting of interviews and participant observation, this article compares the spatial arrangement of the sultan’s complex with that of the keputren (harem) and examines the critical spatial manifestation of idealized gender relations using visual theory. It finds that the architectural layout conveys not only class but also gender hierarchies. This representation of idealized gender relations is shaped by, and communicated through, the prescription of movement in space and the control of physical appearance through and within space. This ultimately reflects the sultan’s vision of women and his intention to make women and their space invisible to people—especially men—other than the sultan himself.

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Porticus Pompeiana:a new perspective on the first public park of ancient Rome

Cited by 62 publications

References 1 publication

A Republican Dilemma: City or State? Or, the Concrete Revolution Revisited

A Republican Dilemma: City or State? Or, the Concrete Revolution Revisited

The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy

Vision and Gendered Space: Making Women Invisible in Yogyakarta Sultanate Palace

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