Domesticating Empire e-bog
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Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitln Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden. Through paintings and mosaics portraying the Nile, canals that turned the garden itself into ...
E-bog
802,25 DKK
Forlag
Oxford University Press
Udgivet
29 marts 2019
Længde
416 sider
Genrer
1QDAR
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780190641368
Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitln Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden. Through paintings and mosaics portraying the Nile, canals that turned the garden itself into a miniature "e;Nilescape,"e; and statuary depicting Egyptian themes, many gardens in Pompeii offered ancient visitors evocations of a Roman vision of Egypt. Simultaneously faraway and familiar, these imagined landscapes made the unfathomable breadth of empire compatible with the familiarity of home. In contrast to older interpretations that connect Roman "e;Aegyptiaca"e; to the worship of Egyptian gods or the problematic concept of "e;Egyptomania,"e; a contextual analysis of these garden assemblages suggests new possibilities for meaning. In Pompeian houses, Egyptian and Egyptian-looking objects and images interacted with their settings to construct complex entanglements of "e;foreign"e; and "e;familiar,"e; "e;self"e; and "e;other."e; Representations of Egyptian landscapes in domestic gardens enabled individuals to present themselves as sophisticated citizens of empire. Yet at the same time, household material culture also exerted an agency of its own: domesticizing, familiarizing, and "e;Romanizing"e; once-foreign images and objects. That which was once imagined as alien and potentially dangerous was now part of the domus itself, increasingly incorporated into cultural constructions of what it meant to be "e;Roman."e; Featuring brilliant illustrations in both color and black and white, Domesticating Empire reveals the importance of material culture in transforming household space into a microcosm of empire.