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Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Gardening
ISBN : OXFORD:N11660078
Author : Thomas Browne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316606865
Originally published in 1958, this book contains the texts of two 1658 works by Sir Thomas Browne, Urne Burial and The Garden of Cyrus. Appendices and illustrative figures are included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Sir Thomas Browne and philosophy.
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Gardening
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019795038
Author : Thomas Browne
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515042634
"The Garden of Cyrus" from Thomas Browne. English polymath and author of varied works (1605-1682).
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:81857654
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Gardening
ISBN : OCLC:220646780
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429905312
Cyrus, a great Persian leader, was so widely and memorably respected that a hundred years later, Xenophon of Athens wrote this admiring book about the greatest leader of his era. Larry Hedrick's Introduction describes Cyrus and his times. Among his many achievements, this great leader of wisdom and virtue founded and extended the Persian Empire; conquered Babylon; freed 40,000 Jews from captivity; wrote mankind's first human rights charter; and ruled over those he had conquered with respect and benevolence. According to historian Will Durant, Cyrus the Great's military enemies knew that he was lenient, and they did not fight him with that desperate courage which men show when their only choice is "to kill or die." As a result the Iranians regarded him as "The Father," the Babylonians as "The Liberator," the Greeks as the "Law-Giver," and the Jews as the "Anointed of the Lord." By freshening the voice, style and diction of Cyrus, Larry Hedrick has created a more contemporary Cyrus. A new generation of readers, including business executives and managers, military officers, and government officials, can now learn about and benefit from Cyrus the Great's extraordinary achievements, which exceeded all other leaders' throughout antiquity.
Author : Cyrus Cassells
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592140
A lyrical "book of heroes" about the role of art, creation, and inspiration.
Author : Harold Lamb
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774647752
A dramatic retelling of the life of the tough and bellicose sixth-century King of Persia, Cyrus the Great.
Author : Irving Finkel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857733498
Some historical artfacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unerathing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same traditin of game changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tom of the boy-king Tutankhamun. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history of its period. Inscribed with an account of the conquest of Babylon in 539 BC by the Persian king, it records an event which launched one of the greatest imperial adventures in history. It describes Cyrus' capture and deposition of Nabondius, last native Babylonian ruler (represented by the Cylinder text as an oppressor of his own people), and proclaims the Persian, aided by the god Marduk, as a liberator. His annexation of Babylon was to become the platform upon which the Achaemenid military machine built its later vast imperium. But the Cylinder is more than an ancient exercise in propaganda. It has been celebrated as the world's first declaration of human rights, and an international symbl of religious tolerance, setting out the decree from which Cyrus freed the Jews in Babylon : an event recorded by Isaiah. Few other objects from antiquity are invested with so many hopes for the future. This important volume is the first to discuss the Cylinder and its remarkable history. Written by internationally respected authorities from the British Museum, it offers a fresh consideration of its subject in the light of new discoveries. Included here is a complete new translation of the Cylinder inscription using recently identified but previously unpublished sources. Archive materials have allowed a fresh investigation of the circumstances of the original nineteenth-century find by Hormuzd Rassam, and a reappraisal of the mysterious 'Chinese bone' forgeries. The book also discusses the extraordinary and evolving history of Cyrus' timeless message: a message that continues powerfully to resonate.
Author : Penelope Hobhouse
Publisher : Kales Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0967007666
Looks at the evolution of Persian gardens from ancient times to the present day and their impact on modern garden design.
Author : Reza Zarghamee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Iran
ISBN : 1933823933
Some of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery. So it is with the life of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire in the sixth century bce. By conquest or gentler means, he brought under his rule a dominion stretching from the Aegean Sea to the Hindu Kush and encompassing some tens of millions of people. All across this immense imperium, he earned support and stability by respecting local customs and religions, avoiding the brutal ways of tyranny, and efficiently administering the realm through provincial governors. The empire would last another two centuries, leaving an indelible Persian imprint on much of the ancient world. The Greek chronicler Xenophon, looking back from a distance of several generations, wrote: "Cyrus did indeed eclipse all other monarchs, before or since." The vision of the biblical prophet known as Second Isaiah anticipates Cyrus' repatriation of Jews living in exile in Babylon with these words of the Lord: "He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please." Despite what he achieved and bequeathed, much about Cyrus remains uncertain. Persians of his era had no great respect for the written word and kept no annals. The most complete accounts of his life were composed by Greeks. More fragmentary or tangential evidence takes many forms - among them, archaeological remains, administrative records in subject lands, and the always tricky stuff of legend. Given these challenges, Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World is a remarkable feat of portraiture. In his vast sweep, Reza Zarghamee draws on sources of every kind, painstakingly assembling detail, and always weighing evidence carefully where contradictions arise. He describes the background of the Persian people, the turbulence of the times, and the roots of Cyrus' policies. His account of the imperial era itself delves into religion, military methods, commerce, court life, and much else besides. The result is a living, breathing Cyrus standing atop a distant world that played a key role in shaping our own.
Author : W. G. Sebald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221306
"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 191140590X
Thomas Browne's books are complex and multilayered; witty yet deeply humane. Both 'Letter to a Friend' and 'Hydriotaphia' deal with Death; but Browne's humour and eloquence transform his essays on this seemingly unpromising topic into entrancing works of art, while 'The Garden' reveals itself as an insightful meditation on Life and Mysticis
Author : Claire Preston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521837944
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