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The Emperor's Ostrich

Author : Julie Berry
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781596439597

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Magic and mayhem abound in this fantasy adventure from the author of The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place. Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a magical map to guide her. Along the way she meets a mother and baby, a woodcutter, a very dirty young man, and an eight-foot ostrich. Meanwhile, the emperor has gone missing from the royal palace in a most mysterious manner. Was it murder? Was it magic? It will take all of Begonia's wits to save the empire and get Alfalfa home safely.

Raphael’s Ostrich

Author : Una Roman D’Elia
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271077499

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Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific, literary, religious, poetic, and satirical texts and images, D’Elia demonstrates the rich variety of ways in which people made sense of this living “monster,” which was depicted as the embodiment of heresy, stupidity, perseverance, justice, fortune, gluttony, and other virtues and vices. Because Raphael was revered as a god of art, artists imitated and competed with his ostrich, while religious and cultural critics complained about the potential for misinterpreting such obscure imagery. This book not only considers the history of the ostrich but also explores how Raphael’s painting forced viewers to question how meaning is attributed to the natural world, a debate of central importance in early modern Europe at a time when the disciplines of modern art history and natural history were developing. The strangeness of Raphael’s ostrich, situated at the crossroads of art, religion, myth, and natural history, both reveals lesser-known sides of Raphael’s painting and illuminates major cultural shifts in attitudes toward nature and images in the Renaissance. More than simply an examination of a single artist or a single subject, Raphael’s Ostrich offers an accessible, erudite, and charming alternative to Vasari’s pervasive model of the history of sixteenth-century Italian art.

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631494109

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, The Economist, Smithsonian Most Anticipated Books of Fall: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Literary Hub, and Publishers Weekly "A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and don’t, about life at the top.... Emperor of Rome is a masterly group portrait, an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar civilization." —Kyle Harper, Wall Street Journal A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most famous classicist” (Guardian). In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries—and some thirty emperors—that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions that we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor’s wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hand—whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

A Pocket Dictionary of Roman Emperors

Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0892368683

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"The Roman Empire was one of the greatest political powers of the ancient world, encircling the entire Mediterranean Sea and lasting for nearly five centuries. This illustrated dictionary traces the history of twenty-seven of the empire's supreme rulers. Meet Trajan, who pushed the empire's frontiers to their greatest extent; Hadrian, who built his famous wall and the Pantheon; Septimius Severus, the African emperor who rebuilt Rome and the empire after ruinous wars; and Constantine, who reunited the empire and made Christianity the official religion. Then read about the emperors who were mad, bad, and dangerous to know: Nero, who murdered his relatives and swept away much of Rome to build his Palace; and Caligula and Domitian, who were infamous for their curelty and extreme behavior."--BOOK JACKET.

The animals of the Bible

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590084218

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Emperors of Rome

Author : David Potter
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780873367

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The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the maniac Commodus and beyond. Interwoven with these are vivid descriptions of sports and art, political intrigues and historic events. In this entertaining and erudite work, acclaimed classical scholar David Potter brings Imperial Rome, and the lives of the men who ruled it, to vivid life.

A History of Un-fractured Chinese Civilization in Archaeological Interpretation

Author : Qingzhu Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811939464

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A History of Un-fractured Chinese Civilization in Archaeological Interpretation by Qingzhu Liu Pdf

This book presents an archeological interpretation of the history of Chinese civilization. Tracing back from recent history to the distant past, it explores the breadth of Chinese civilization. Using archeological remains and cultural relics as starting points and approaching the cultural dimension from material perspectives, it presents a panoramic view of China’s civilizational continuity, together with its ideological and cultural characteristics. Featuring a wealth of illustrations (including photos of cultural relics and sites, archeological surveys, etc.) and texts written in easy-to-understand language, it offers an engaging read without sacrificing academic quality. The main components of “civilization” are addressed: capital archeology, mausoleum archeology, ritual wares and architecture archeology, as well as written language. The book offers a unique resource for archeology scholars and majors, as well as general readers who are interested in Chinese archeology and history.

Cyclopædia of the Industry of All Nations

Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : NYPL:33433087555011

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Knight's Cyclopaedia of the Industry of All Nations. 1851

Author : Charles Knight (Publisher.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : NLS:V000606106

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The Encyclopedia of Useless Information

Author : William Hatrston
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781402248382

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The Encyclopedia of Useless Information by William Hatrston Pdf

Discover what all the other encyclopedias leave out This is the superbly satisfying compendium of weird factoids too interesting to be contained in your average encyclopedia. Daring to cross-reference the un-cross-reference-able, to alphabetize what cannot be alphabetized, and to deliver the highest concentration of fun that can fit in one book's spine, this information is too useless to waste: In Denmark, pigs go 'knor'; in Germany, horses go 'prrrh'; in ancient Greece, dogs went 'au au.' Italians sneeze 'ecci ecci.' A teacher in Italy was disciplined in 1996 for passing students exam answers hidden in salami sandwiches. In 1957 the U.S. air force completed a survey of the Atlantic Ocean but refused to divulge its width on the grounds that the information might be of military use to the Russians. In Paris in 1740 a cow was hanged in public following its conviction for sorcery.

Ostriches and Ostrich Farming

Author : Julius de Mosenthal,James Edmund Harting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Cassowaries
ISBN : OXFORD:600036266

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Royal Genealogies: Or, The Genealogical Tables Of Emperors, Kings and Princes, From Adam to These Times In Two Parts

Author : James Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00036577

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Royal Genealogies: Or, The Genealogical Tables Of Emperors, Kings and Princes, From Adam to These Times In Two Parts by James Anderson Pdf

Bill of sale : bought of Walford Brothers 1938 July 20 by Mrs. Virgil Idol.