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Author : David Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Rome
ISBN : 0500051976

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Rome in the Ancient World by David Potter Pdf

This authoritative, highly readable textbook offers a complete survey of the history of Rome from its origins, through the Republic and Empire, to the period of its decline and fall, ending with the emergence of Mohammed in the 6th century. Written by a historian with an international reputation, the book incorporates the most recent scholarship and archaeological evidence. It describes the key events in Roman history, and offers fascinating insights into Roman life and culture as they changed and developed over the centuries.

Author : Gregory S. Aldrete
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0801884055

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Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome by Gregory S. Aldrete Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Rome
ISBN : LCCN:61003062

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Everyday Life in Ancient Rome by Anonim Pdf

Describes the daily life of Romans of all classes, their festivals, religious life, and family life.

Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781010228

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When in Rome by Matthew Sturgis Pdf

This “dashing chronicle” reveals what tourists have been visiting in Rome, from the era of the Roman Republic to contemporary times (The Independent). There is no place like Rome. Throughout its long, long history, its many changes in form and fortune, Rome has always been a tourist centre. In every age—Classical, Christian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Modern—people have flocked to see its wonders. This is the story of what Rome’s visitors have looked at over the past two thousand years, the buildings, the statues, the paintings, the artifacts that have most impressed each generation of travellers from the time of the Roman Republic in the second century BC up to the present age of mass tourism. It is the history both of how Rome has changed with the centuries and how the taste of those who have visited the city has changed with it.

Author : Nicholas Nicastro
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798454859695

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The River Through Rome by Nicholas Nicastro Pdf

In the last years of the Roman Republic, a talented engineer is tapped to bring water to one of the city's most notorious slums. Nonius believes he is doing good for his city, but he isn't counting on the many obstacles that prevent anything from getting done in those turbulent times. His troubles multiply when he falls in love with beautiful, haunted Amaris, concubine of a senator who is determined to stop Nonius' aqueduct from going through. The clash between them runs from the bedrooms to the streets to the courtrooms of the Eternal City, in one of the most fateful periods in her history. "This historical novel gives readers a view of ancient Rome from the rare perspective of a good man just trying to do an honest job...Nicastro is an experienced and accomplished writer and often a prose poet in his descriptions of Nonius and Amaris: 'If his life was a stem, she was the rose, ' and 'Trapped there, between the Scylla of oblivion and the Charybdis of inconsequence he was powerless to go on.' This is a Rome falling fast from greatness, though oblivious to the descent. The Republic is dead; Octavian will soon style himself 'Augustus, ' a god. Sycophancy and cynicism are the orders of the day. The captivating book does, in fact, provide an excellent slice of history...An intriguing, well-researched, and well-told tale of ancient Rome." -Kirkus Reviews

Author : Simon James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0863184456

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Ancient Rome by Simon James Pdf

Part of a series, this visual guide to Ancient Rome gives an insight into the lives of the people that lived in ancient Rome. Every aspect of Roman life is covered, from the cooking utensils they used and the food that they ate, to the instruments they used to cleanse and beautify themselves.

Author : Kristi Cheramie,Antonella De Michelis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317340751

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Through Time and the City by Kristi Cheramie,Antonella De Michelis Pdf

Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome offers a new approach to exploring cities. Using Rome as a guide, the book follows familiar sites, geographies, and characters in search of their role within a larger narrative that includes the environmental processes required to generate enough space and material for the city, the emergent ecologies to which its buildings play host, and the social patterns its various structures help to organize. Through Time and the City argues that Rome is made and unmade by an endlessly evolving chorus that has, for better or worse, gained geological legitimacy; that the city absorbs and emits countless artifacts in its search for collective identity; that the city is a platform for the constant staging of negotiations between agents (humans, buildings, plants, animals, pathogens, goods, waste, water) that drive and are driven by the entanglements of climate and culture. This book provides textual and visual frameworks for identifying the material traces, emergent patterns, or speculated futures that expose a city as inseparable from its capacity to change.

Author : F. R. Cowell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0399503285

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Life in Ancient Rome by F. R. Cowell Pdf

“This book will be of the greatest service . . . a scholarly and convenient presentation of a vast array of facts.” –Times Literary Supplement In this well-written and well-researched social history, F. R. Cowell succeeds in making Life in Ancient Rome alive and dynamic. The combination of acute historical detail and supplementary illustrations makes this book perfectly suited for the student preparing to explore classics, as well as the tourist preparing to explore twentieth-century Rome. Lucid and engaging, Life in Ancient Rome is for anyone seeking familiarity with the greatness that was Rome.

Author : Elizabeth Harriot Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Jews
ISBN : HARVARD:AH53ZX

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A History of the Jews in Rome. B.C. 160-A.D. 604 by Elizabeth Harriot Hudson Pdf

Author : Alberto Angela
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780847841288

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The Reach of Rome by Alberto Angela Pdf

In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from the Sahara to the North Sea. What was life like in the Empire, and how were such diverse peoples and places united under one rule? The Reach of Rome explores these questions through an ingenious lens: the path of a single coin as it changes hands and traverses the vast realms of the empire in the year 115. Admired in his native Italy for his ability to bring history to life through narrative, Alberto Angela opens up the ancient world to readers who have felt intimidated by the category or put off by dry historical tomes. By focusing on aspects of daily life so often overlooked in more academic treatments, The Reach of Rome travels back in time and shows us a world that was perhaps not very different from our own. And by following the path of a coin through the streams of commerce, we can touch every corner of that world and its people, from legionnaires and senators to prostitutes and slaves. Through lively and detailed vignettes all based on archeological and historical evidence, Angela reveals the vast Roman world and its remarkable modernity, and in so doing he reinforces the relevance of the ancient world for a new generation of readers.

Author : Christopher Francese
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0781811538

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Ancient Rome in So Many Words by Christopher Francese Pdf

The brief word-histories in this book are meant to provide background on some words that everyone learns when they study Latin, as well as some rarer terms that have interesting stories to tell about Roman culture. This book lists a new word or phrase that came into American English every year from 1975 to 1998, with a selection of early additions from 1497 to 1750, and discusses the history behind the adoption of each. Teachers and students of Latin can benefit from the slightly more formal, but still anecdotal, approach taken here to some key words in the Latin lexicon.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416573166

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Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr Pdf

Documents the award-winning writer's experiences of living, working, and raising twin sons in Rome during the year following his receipt of a prestigious Rome Prize stipend, a period during which he attended the vigil of the dying John Paul II, brought his children on a snowy visit to the Pantheon, and befriended numerous locals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Claude Eilers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047424291

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Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World by Claude Eilers Pdf

This volume of papers offers ten perspectives on the way in which ambassadors, embassies, and the institutional apparatuses supporting them contributed to Roman rule. Understanding Roman diplomatic practices can shed light on a wide variety of historical and cultural trends.

Author : Patrick Bowe
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardens, Roman
ISBN : 9780892367405

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Gardens of the Roman World by Patrick Bowe Pdf

Romans loved their gardens, whether they were the grand gardens of imperial country estates or the small private spaces tucked behind city houses. They treasured gardens both as places for relaxation and as plots to grow ornamental plants as well as fruits and vegetables. The soothing sound of bubbling fountains often added further to the pleasures of life in the garden. Romans constructed gardens in every corner of their empire, from Britain to North Africa and from Portugal to Asia Minor. Long after their empire collapsed, the gardens they had so carefully planted continued to exert influence in the farflung corners of their former world. This book describes the variety of Roman gardens throughout the empire, from the humblest to the most lavish, including such well-known places as Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli and the gardens of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The continued influence of Roman gardens is traced though Arabic, medieval, and Renaissance gardens to the present day. Many of the lavish illustrations were commissioned for this book.

Author : Steven Saylor
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429917063

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Roma by Steven Saylor Pdf

Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its people. Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative, critically acclaimed novelist Steven Saylor gives new life to the drama of the city's first thousand years — from the founding of the city by the ill-fated twins Romulus and Remus, through Rome's astonishing ascent to become the capitol of the most powerful empire in history. Roma recounts the tragedy of the hero-traitor Coriolanus, the capture of the city by the Gauls, the invasion of Hannibal, the bitter political struggles of the patricians and plebeians, and the ultimate death of Rome's republic with the triumph, and assassination, of Julius Caesar. Witnessing this history, and sometimes playing key roles, are the descendents of two of Rome's first families, the Potitius and Pinarius clans: One is the confidant of Romulus. One is born a slave and tempts a Vestal virgin to break her vows. One becomes a mass murderer. And one becomes the heir of Julius Caesar. Linking the generations is a mysterious talisman as ancient as the city itself. Epic in every sense of the word, Roma is a panoramic historical saga and Saylor's finest achievement to date.