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Author | : John T. Ramsey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This unique collaboration between a classicist and physicist at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the first work to combine the evidence from both China and Rome for the spectacular daylight comet of 44 BC, perhaps the most famous comet in antiquity. This investigation, which alsoexamines allusions to this comet in astrological literature from later antiquity, sheds new light on the significance of the comet as a powerful symbol in the political propaganda that launched Augustus' career.
Author | : Nandini B. Pandey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108422659 |
Download The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author | : J. S Richardson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748655336 |
Download Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history.
Author | : Emma Gee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521651875 |
Download Ovid, Aratus and Augustus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti has been overlooked. It is this material which is the subject of this book.
Author | : George H. van Kooten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004308474 |
Download The Star of Bethlehem and the Magi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the fruit of the first ever interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Matthew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Groningen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and religion. The scholarly discussions and the exchange of the interdisciplinary views proved to be immensely fruitful and resulted in the present book. Its twenty chapters describe the various aspects of The Star: the history of its interpretation, ancient near-eastern astronomy and astrology and the Magi, astrology in the Greco-Roman and the Jewish worlds, and the early Christian world – at a generally accessible level. An epilogue summarizes the fact-fiction balance of the most famous star which has ever shone.
Author | : Miriam Griffin |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1119062357 |
Download A Companion to Julius Caesar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and after life of this great polarizing figure. Explores Caesar from a variety of perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first class orator, sophisticated man of letters, and more Utilizes Caesar’s own extant writings Examines the viewpoints of Caesar’s contemporaries and explores Caesar’s portrayals by artists and writers through the ages
Author | : Michael Koortbojian |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0521192153 |
Download The Divinization of Caesar and Augustus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the newly institutionalized divinization of Caesar and Augustus at the advent of the Roman empire.
Author | : Tom Stevenson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317597532 |
Download Julius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Julius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic provides an accessible introduction to Caesar’s life and public career. It outlines the main phases of his career with reference to prominent social and political concepts of the time. This approach helps to explain his aims, ideals, and motives as rooted in tradition, and demonstrates that Caesar’s rise to power owed much to broad historical processes of the late Republican period, a view that contrasts with the long-held idea that he sought to become Rome’s king from an early age. This is an essential undergraduate introduction to this fascinating figure, and to his role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire.
Author | : Maria Wyke |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405154713 |
Download Julius Caesar in Western Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the significance of Julius Caesar to differentperiods, societies and people from the 50s BC through to thetwenty-first century. This interdisciplinary volume explores the significance ofJulius Caesar to different periods, societies and people. Ranges over the fields of religious, military, and politicalhistory, archaeology, architecture and urban planning, the visualarts, and literary, film, theatre and cultural studies. Examines representations of Caesar in Italy, France, Germany,Britain, and the United States in particular. Objects of analysis range from Caesar’s own commentarieson the Gallic wars, through Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, andimages of Caesar in Italian fascist popular culture, tocontemporary cinema and current debates about Americanempire. Edited by a leading expert on the reception of ancientRome. Includes original contributions by international experts onCaesar and his reception.
Author | : Anne-Marie Lewis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Astrology and politics |
ISBN | : 0197599648 |
Download Celestial Inclinations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Celestial Inclinations: A Life of Augustus provides a new perspective on the life and career of the first Roman emperor Augustus (63 B.C.-A.D. 14) and presents the case that Augustus used his knowledge of the celestial sphere in various ways to confirm for himself and convey to others that the heavens supported his activities on earth and his inevitable greatness. The book is based on fresh assessments of relevant ancient historical, literary, astronomical, astrological, and artistic sources for the years prior to and during the life of Augustus. The book combines these sources with astronomical sky maps and astrological diagrams to offer fresh interpretations of critical events in the life of Augustus at a time when the celestial sphere had come to play an important cultural and political role. Topics include the identification of the celestial object that appeared at the ludi in honor of Caesar in 44 B.C.; the Battle of Actium; the iconography of the Tellus Relief Panel on the Ara Pacis Augustae; the Ludi Saeculares; Augustus' major building projects in Rome; and Augustus' interactions with major figures of the period such as Cicero, Caesar, Agrippa, and Antonius"--