Venerdì 4 aprile 2025, dalle 9.45 alle 17
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Via Garibaldi 31 (sede temporanea, ingresso al civico)
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Loca amoena nel contesto urbano: Roma, Pompei e Ostia
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?
9.45 Ria Berg (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Director) – Saluto e introduzione ai lavori
9.50-10.20 Keynote: Christopher Hallet (University of California, Berkeley) – “The greening of early Augustan Rome”
10.20-10.40 Arja Karivieri (University of Stockholm) – “Ostia, Rome, Pompeii: Nature in the living space”
10.40-11.00 Paola Olivanti (Archaeological Park of Ostia antica) – “Giardini ostiensi: status quaestionis”
11.00-11.30 Caffe
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11.30-11.50 Paolo Gardelli (University of Dallas/The American Institute for Roman Culture) – ““The development of Villa Arianna’s gardens at Stabiae: From the late Republic to the early Empire”
11.50-12.10 Eric Morvillez (Centre Jean Bérard, University of Avignon) – “La scelta del ‘paradeisos’: il valore della caccia nei dipinti dei giardini pompeiani”
12.10-12.30 Antonio Monticolo (University of Pisa) – “The fountains of the Domus of Octavius Quartio (II 2, 2) in Pompeii: The creation of the locus amoenus and the locus horridus”
12.30-12.50 Discussione
12.50-13.50 Pausa pranzo
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Sessione del gruppo di ricerca dell’IRF
13.50-14.05 Nikolai Paukkonen (University of Helsinki) – “Water and light in the Pompeian domus”
14.05-14.20 Henna Ala-Lehtimäki (University of Turku) – “Dining al fresco in Pompeii: Spaces and Senses”
14.20-15.35 Jutta Laitila (University of Turku) – “Painted plants and sacrality in domestic context”
14.35-14.50 Pyry Koskinen (University of Helsinki) – “Urban birdscapes in Roman and Pompeian frescoes”
14.50-15.10 Susanna Rämö (University of Helsinki) – “The Roman house as a Dionysiac stage”
15.10-15.40 Caffe
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15.40-16.00 Anna Anguissola (University of Pisa) – Riccardo Olivito (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) – “Profitable amoenitas. Leisure at work in the urban gardens of Regio II at Pompeii”
16.00-16.20 Tuomo Nuorluoto (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae) – “Le tombe come loca amoena – evidenze epigrafiche”
16.20-16.40 Caroline Goodson (American Academy in Rome/University of Cambridge) – “Late antique, early medieval loca amoena in Rome”
16.40-17.00 Discussione
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