Maureen Carroll Boeken

The two German provinces of the Roman Empire, Germania Superior and Germania Inferior, which included modern Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and parts of France and Belgium, formed a vital link between the Mediterranean and the North Sea. Maureen Carroll's synthesis of past and recent archaeological research introduces readers to the main features of the Roman Empire in these provinces. It deals with the pre-Roman societies and their landscapes, which were to be changed by the Romans after the conquests of Caesar and Augustus. The book also explores the concept of frontier and assesses the role of the German provinces as border zones of the Empire.

This study is a systematic, comprehensive examination of all generic types of stone reliefs with landscape motifs from the 5th to the 1st centuries B. C. The reliefs comprise the largest body of extant Greek art works which depict scenic settings or elements thereof in their compositions. The chronological and geographical development of landscape in relief, its function and role as well as regional differences in these depictions are presented here. The relationship between landscape scenes in relief and in Greek painting is explored and the salient features of both art forms are determined.