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PreserveCastHow to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort with Marden Fitzpatrick NicholsToday we're joined by Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols, who selected, translated, and introduced a collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration in How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort (Princeton, 2025).
Nicholas is particularly interested in how debates about the significance of art and architecture shaped ancient Roman cultural and intellectual history. She has also written about the reception of classical art in the 19th and 20th centuries.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249124/how-to-make-a-home?srsltid=AfmBOooDqFMm2YMd3tql7jjGhL3nUUL_hbQ5FUq9mf-_iDgXZa15_L3P
2025-09-2941 min
Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasSPECIAL: Literary Sources for the Roman HouseMarden Fitzpatrick Nichols joins me in the Lesche to discuss her new book How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort, a curated collection of passages (by Cicero, Juvenal, Ovid, Pliny, Vitruvius, and others) that relate to the design, decor, and ideology of the ancient Roman house and home. The book is part of Princeton University Press's "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers" series.Preview the book's Table of Contents here.Read Yung In Chae's 2020 article (in the Princeton Alumni Weekly) about the "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers" series....
2025-08-1238 min