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Altera Roma

Author : Claire L. Lyons,John M. D. Pohl
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770357

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Altera Roma by Claire L. Lyons,John M. D. Pohl Pdf

Altera Roma explores the confrontation of two cultures, European and Amerindian, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. In an age of exploration and conquest, Spanish soldiers, missionaries, and merchants brought an array of cultural preconceptions. Their encounter with Aztec civilization coincided with Europe's rediscovery of classical antiquity, and Tenochtitlan came to be regarded a "second Rome," or altera Roma. Iberia's past as the Roman province of Hispania served to both guide and critique the Spanish overseas mission. The dialogue that emerged between the Old World and the New World shaped a dual heritage into the unique culture of Nueva Espana. In this volume, ten eminent historians and archaeologists examine the analogies between empires widely separated in time and place and consider how monumental art and architecture created "theater states," a strategy that links ancient Rome, Hapsburg Spain, preconquest Mexico, and other imperial regimes.

Numbers IX., X., XI., XII., XIII. of addenda and corrigenda to the edition of the Hippolytus Stephanéphoros of Euripides, by ... F. H. Egerton

Author : Francis Henry EGERTON (8th Earl of Bridgewater.),Francis Henry Egerton Earl of Bridgewater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022493064

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Numbers IX., X., XI., XII., XIII. of addenda and corrigenda to the edition of the Hippolytus Stephanéphoros of Euripides, by ... F. H. Egerton by Francis Henry EGERTON (8th Earl of Bridgewater.),Francis Henry Egerton Earl of Bridgewater Pdf

From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

Author : David Charles Wright-Carr,Francisco Marco Simón
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646423163

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From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico by David Charles Wright-Carr,Francisco Marco Simón Pdf

From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of departure to conceptualize historical affinities and differences between the ancient Roman Empire and colonial Mesoamerica. An international team of specialists in classical scholarship and Mesoamerican studies engage in an interdisciplinary discussion involving ideas from history, anthropology, archaeology, art history, iconography, and philology. Key themes include the role of religion in processes of imperial domination; religion’s use as an instrument of resistance or the imposition, appropriation, incorporation, and adaptation of various elements of religious systems by hegemonic groups and subaltern peoples; the creative misunderstandings that can arise on the “middle ground”; and Christianity’s rejection of ritual violence and its use of this rejection as a pretext for inflicting other kinds of violence against peoples classified as “barbarian,” “pagan,” or “diabolical.” From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico presents a sympathetic vantage point for discussing and attempting to decipher past processes of social communication in multicultural contexts of present-day realities. It will be significant for scholars and specialists in the history of religions, ethnohistory, classical antiquity, and Mesoamerican studies. Publication supported, in part, by Spain’s Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Contributors: Sergio Botta,Maria Celia Fontana Calvo, Martin Devecka, György Németh, Guilhem Olivier, Francisco Marco Simón, Paolo Taviani, Greg Woolf, David Charles Wright-Carr, Lorenzo Pérez Yarza Translators: Emma Chesterman, Benjamin Adam Jerue, Layla Wright-Contreras

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13

Author : C. M. van der Keur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192884893

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Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13 by C. M. van der Keur Pdf

Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthaginian dominance, Rome begins to gain the upper hand. Following his failed attempt to attack Rome, Hannibal is devastated to learn that his role model Diomedes had provided Aeneas' heirs with the protective talisman of the Palladium, and leaves for southern Italy. This allows the Romans to finish their siege of Capua, Hannibal's rich ally in Italy, in punishment for its treachery; Capua's fall marks the beginning of the end for Carthage. The book's central theme of the anticipation of Rome's destined victory is continued in the third and longest part of the book, where young Scipio, the future Africanus, ventures into the underworld, and into the depths of the rich poetic past, to be inspired by the shades he encounters and to define his own position as an epic hero. This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entirety of Punica 13, including the famous Nekyia episode. The notes, which cover matters of syntax, textual criticism, style, a selection of realia, and important verbal and conceptual parallels, are complemented with extended introductory paragraphs for each scene focusing on poetic models, themes, intertextual interpretation, and narrative structure. C. M. van der Keur's General Introduction discusses the book against its Flavian background, its position within the epic and within the literary tradition, and Silius' use of metre and verse composition. The Latin text is presented alongside an English translation.

Reading Roman Pride

Author : Yelena Baraz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780197531600

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Reading Roman Pride by Yelena Baraz Pdf

Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power. This study examines Roman discourse of pride from two distinct complementary perspectives. The first is based on scripts, mini-stories told to illustrate what pride is, how it arises and develops, and where it fits within the Roman emotional landscape. The second is semantic, and draws attention to differences between terms within the pride field. The peculiar feature of Roman pride that emerges is that it appears exclusively as a negative emotion, attributed externally and condemned, up to the Augustan period. This previously unnoticed lack of expression of positive pride in republican discourse is a result of the way the Roman republican elite articulates its values as anti-monarchical and is committed, within the governing class, to power-sharing and a kind of equality. The book explores this uniquely Roman articulation of pride attributed to people, places, and institutions and traces the partial rehabilitation of pride that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change. Reading for pride produces innovative readings of texts that range from Plautus to Ausonius, with major focus on Cicero, Livy, Vergil, and other Augustan poets.

The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An introductory study

Author : William Lloyd MacDonald,William MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300028199

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The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An introductory study by William Lloyd MacDonald,William MacDonald Pdf

Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets

Livy

Author : Gary B. Miles
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501724619

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Some critics of the Roman historian Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) have dismissed his work as a compendium of stale narratives and conventional attitudes. Gary B. Miles reveals in Livy's history a creative interplay between traditional stories, contemporary ideological assumptions, and the historian's own perspective at the margins of Roman aristocracy. Drawing on a range of critical approaches, Miles considers Livy's stance as a historian, the ways in which he reworked his sources, and his interpretation of such historical phenomena as recurrence, continuity, and change. Miles focuses on the foundation stories with which Livy begins his account, detecting in Livy's rendition certain original conceptions of historical time including the suggestion that Roman identity and greatness might be preserved indefinitely through successive reenactments of a historical cycle. Miles pays particular attention to two stories—those of the abduction of the Sabine women and of Romulus and Remus, showing how Livy's versions of these traditional narratives—far from leading to a simplistic moral—address unresolved political issues of his day. According to Miles, Livy shows an unusually tenacious willingness to confront dilemmas in historiography and Roman ideology which were commonly ignored or suppressed by both his predecessors and his contemporaries.

Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination

Author : Antony Augoustakis,R. Joy Littlewood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192534835

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Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination by Antony Augoustakis,R. Joy Littlewood Pdf

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakes invited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril.

Livy's Written Rome

Author : Mary Jaeger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Rome
ISBN : 0472107895

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The modern age is not the only one in which Romans and visitors to Rome have been fascinated with the city's striking juxtapositions of past and present. Rome's wealth of history also captured the imagination of the ancients. Livy's Written Rome, by Mary Jaeger, shows how one writer explored the relationship between events in Roman history, the landscape in which they occurred, and the monuments that commemorated them. While Augustus reconstructed the physical city to reflect the ideology of the Empire, the historian Livy created a written Rome and taught his readers to look beyond the city's dramatically altered landscape. In so doing, they gained insight into the lessons of the lost Republic. Drawing upon modern discourse on the connection between private mental spaces and public civic spaces, this first in-depth study of Livy's use of the urban landscape offers discerning views on his interpretation of ancient theories of historiography. Livy's Written Rome discusses the Roman idea of the monument as a place where memory and space intersect and includes fresh readings of several historical episodes, including the battle over the Sabine Women, the sedition of Marcus Manlius, and the trials of the Scipios. Scholars have long criticized Livy as a historian because his work is not in accord with modern historiographical standards. Yet even his critics agree that Livy is a masterful literary artist, and recent work on Livy has argued for the complexity and originality of his thought. Across the humanities, recent scholarship has focused on the role of memory in civic consciousness and identity. This book explores the ways in which Livy's texts question traditional assumptions about the preservation and use of the past. In doing so, it identifies a new and important facet of Livy's representation of urban Rome. Livy's Written Rome will be of interest to classicists and historians, students of ancient historiography and classical rhetoric, as well as general readers interested in memory, monuments, and historical narrative. Mary Jaeger is Professor of Classics, University of Oregon.

Catalogue of the Library of Dr. Kloss of Franckfort a M., Professor, Including Many Original and Unpublished Manuscripts, and Printed Books with Ms. Annotations, by Philip Melancthon

Author : Sotheby & Co (Londen)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100043602T

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Catalogue of the Library of Dr. Kloss of Franckfort a M., Professor, Including Many Original and Unpublished Manuscripts, and Printed Books with Ms. Annotations, by Philip Melancthon by Sotheby & Co (Londen) Pdf