Loca amoena nel contesto urbano: Roma, Pompei e Ostia

Data evento
4 April 2025

The one-day workshop focuses on the presence of nature in Roman urban cityscapes, through archaeological, iconographic and literary evidence. The presentations offer a range of perspectives on the presence of trees and other plants, animals and gardens, water installations and natural lighting in Rome, Pompeii and Ostia, from the early Imperial age onwards.
The questions asked include: how and why, were different types of amenities, imitating nature, artificially constructed in urban contexts? How, and based on what criteria, would Roman house-owners incorporate elements of nature – fountains, grottoes, flowering glades or birds – into their habitations in the middle of densely built cityscapes? Could a locus amoenus be transferred from the woods to the city?

https://irfrome.org/it/4-4-25-giornata-di-studi-urban-loca-amoena/