The Prophecy of Father Tiber
Author | : Susie Mary Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Susie Mary Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Campbell |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2012-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080786904X |
Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire. Examining artistic representations of rivers, related architecture, and the work of ancient geographers and topographers, as well as writers who describe rivers, Campbell reveals how Romans defined the geographical areas they conquered and how geography and natural surroundings related to their society and activities. In addition, he illuminates the prominence and value of rivers in the control and expansion of the Roman Empire--through the legal regulation of riverine activities, the exploitation of rivers in military tactics, and the use of rivers as routes of communication and movement. Campbell shows how a technological understanding of--and even mastery over--the forces of the river helped Rome rise to its central place in the ancient world.
Author | : John Wordsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Inscriptions, Latin |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philip Hardie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0857735063 |
“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T S Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'torn from Libyan waves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism. In his major new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern - of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film.
Author | : Yvonne Elet |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108216110 |
Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. The creation of this important, unfinished complex provides a remarkable case study for the nature of architectural invention. Drawing on little known poetry describing the villa while it was on the drawing board, as well as ground plans, letters, and antiquities once installed there, Yvonne Elet reveals the design process to have been a dynamic, collaborative effort involving humanists as well as architects. She explores design as a self-reflexive process, and the dialectic of text and architectural form, illuminating the relation of word and image in Renaissance architectural practice. Her revisionist account of architectural design as a process engaging different systems of knowledge, visual and verbal, has important implications for the relation of architecture and language, meaning in architecture, and the translation of idea into form.
Author | : Lee M. Fratantuono |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 811 |
Release | : 2018-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004367381 |
Virgil, Aeneid 8 provides the first full-scale commentary on one of the most important and popular books of the great epic of imperial Rome. The commentary is accompanied by a new critical text and a prose translation.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mike Dixon-Kennedy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 1998-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1576074889 |
Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology presents over 1,400 comprehensive A–Z entries of the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome. The entries are cross-referenced where appropriate, and an extensive bibliography is provided. Entries include Heracles and Alexander the Great, and geographical features such as the islands of the Blessed and Dardanelles. An unusual feature of this dictionary is the inclusion of astronomical data, linking the myths and legends to the celestial objects named after them. Diverse characters and events from related traditions—Greco-Egyptian, Roman-Celtic, and more—round out the volume. Students of classical Greek and Roman traditions, librarians, and general readers will turn to this volume again and again for authoritative information on the myths and legends of these ancient cultures.
Author | : Marina Warner |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780292702042 |
A compilation of myths from cultures around the world which have been translated from their original languages.
Author | : Michael Clarke |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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