Table of Contents

Time Chart
Preface
Egyptian Gardens
Gardens of Ancient Mesopotamia & the Near East
Greek Bronze Age Gardens: Minoans and Mycenaean
Greek Gardens and Groves
Etruscan Gardens
Roman Gardens
Byzantine Gardens
Islamic and Persian Gardens
Medieval Gardens
Conclusions
Reconstructions of Period Gardens
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Linda Farrar is a specialist in ancient gardens, with a particular interest in Roman gardens. She has been lecturing since 1999 at the University of Warwick on aspects of ancient gardens and has also given lectures at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and at various venues throughout the country (including the British Museum as part of their 2013 Pompeii exhibition, where she gave a lecture on Life and art in the Gardens of Pompeii). She is the author of Ancient Roman Gardens (Sutton Publishing).

Reviews

Linda Farrar's excellent survey of the gardens of antiquity is an enjoyable volume and is well illustrated with 150 images in colour and monochrome including its author's own pen and ink drawins and plans.
*ARA Journal*

This handsomely illustrated book... is geared towards the general reader, written in accessible language, with a user-friendly layout.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*

An insightful and scholarly assessment of medieval life, useful for students and scholars interested in the roles that gardens played in the social and philosophical life of the Middle Ages.
*Journal of Greek Archaeology*