| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the journey to Rome -- The map -- The itinerary -- The 'take home' message -- The lie of the land -- The seven hills of Rome, republic and empire -- After the high Roman fashion -- The renaissance of the seven hills -- Nineteenth and twentieth-century encounters -- Seven is the magic number -- An invention of tradition -- The potency and possibility of the number seven -- Varro's contribution to the story -- Before the mountains were settled -- Rome, la città eterna -- The seven hills and the ambitions of empire -- Dizzy heights under the Flavians -- The rise and fall of Rome in late antiquity -- Postscript -- Painting by numbers -- The limits of representation -- The seven hills of renaissance artists and patrons -- Nineteenth-century ways of seeing -- On top of the world -- Villas and gardens -- In the thick of it -- Getting the measure of the whole of Rome -- Framing a view from the Capitoline or Palatine -- The imperial gaze -- Divine omniscience -- Signing off -- The history of an idea -- Geography as history. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel.
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Rome -- History.
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| Added Author |
Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9781107025974 1107025974 (DLC) 2012012765 |
| ISBN |
1139571133 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139571135 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107025974 (hard back) |
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1107025974 (hard back) |
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