The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome

Abstract

The disastrous results of extreme anthropocentrism would promote an essentially nostalgic desire to break down artificial barriers between humanity and Nature. This new ideal, vividly expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens and also through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature, informed the urban endeavors of Rome."--Jacket. Homer's Eutoplis -- Greece and the Garden -- Rome and the reinvention of paradise -- Nostalgia and Virgil's pastoral dream.