Mittwoch, 11. November 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 iCal

FORVM ANTIKE

The Augustan Horticultural Revolution

Annalisa Marzano (University of Reading)

Institut für Alte Geschichte
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

Online Event


The Augustan era was a period of profound socio-political and cultural changes in Rome. It was also, as I shall I argue on the basis of literary and archaeological evidence, a time when Roman commercial horticulture experienced a real acceleration in terms of productivity and variety of cultivars available. In my talk, I will focus in particular on arboriculture, exploring it from both an ideological and ‘practical’ point of view. I will argue that the interest of various writers of the era in discussing cultivars traits and yields and the diffusion of novel fruit and vegetables in the provinces owned much to Augustus’ colonization programme.

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Kontakt

Nadine Franziska Riegler
Institut für Alte Geschichte
+43-1-4277-40573
nadine.franziska.riegler@univie.ac.at