Resumen de A colloquium on gardens of the ancient Mediterranean
The history of Roman gardens had been studied in somewhat desultory fashion for many years on the evidence provided by literature and also by frescos of gardens and plants, largely from Campania. Recently, however, the recognition of the existence of physical remains of something as seemingly fragile as a garden and the development of archaeological techniques that make possible an often accurate interpretation of them have stimulated scholarly interest to such an extent that the subject is generally admitted to be valid in its own right. However, the attention paid to gardens of the rest of the ancient world has been scant and the published material paltry indeed. It was consequently decided that the Annual Colloquium of the Department of Classical Studies of the University of Western Ontario for 1990 (held on 13 October of that year) should be devoted to "Gardens of the Ancient Mediterranean", covering the Greek and Roman worlds from the second millennium B.C. to the second millennium A.D.
