Kathleen M. Coleman will present a new course at Harvard College’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during the Spring, 2015 term entitled Roman Gardens. This seminar will study the botany, landscaping, cultivation, terminology, and social function of gardens in the Roman world, employing literary, epigraphic, papyrological, iconographic, and archaeological sources. Among the literary texts to be studied, including both prose and poetry, special emphasis will be placed on Latin treatises on horticulture from the Republic to Late Antiquity. To learn more about the course, visit http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-51347. You may also email kcoleman@fas.harvard.edu.
Professor Coleman is the James Loeb Professor of the Classics and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her research interests include Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry, history and culture of the early Empire, arena spectacles, and Roman punishment.
