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Book Synopsis Amphitheatres and Circuses by : T. Allston Brown
Download or read book Amphitheatres and Circuses written by T. Allston Brown and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally serialized in the New York Clipper, T. Allston Brown's history of circus and arena performances remains a foundation stone of all subsequent research into this field. Theatre and circus historian William L. Slout provides an introduction framing Brown's narrative, plus a comprehensive index, and contemporaneous illustrations.
Book Synopsis (Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 by : Douglas R. Underwood
Download or read book (Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 written by Douglas R. Underwood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.
Book Synopsis 'Bread and Circuses' by : Tim Cornell
Download or read book 'Bread and Circuses' written by Tim Cornell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities. This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy.
Book Synopsis The Roman Amphitheatre by : Katherine E. Welch
Download or read book The Roman Amphitheatre written by Katherine E. Welch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre in the Greek East, a part of the Empire deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule.
Book Synopsis Spectacle in the Roman World by : Hazel Dodge
Download or read book Spectacle in the Roman World written by Hazel Dodge and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gladiatorial combat, animal displays, naumachiae (staged naval battles) and spectacular executions were all an important part of Roman culture. The provision of a wide range of purpose-built buildings (from theatres to amphitheatres to circuses) as venues across the empire is testimony to the popularity and significance of these displays. This book offers an introduction to the main forms of spectacle in the Roman world (human and animal combat, chariot racing, aquatic displays), their nature, context and social importance. It will explore the vast array of sources, from literary to archaeological material, that informs the subject. It will examine the spectacles with special emphasis on their physical setting, and will also consider the variation in the provision of venues and their context across the Empire. A final section will review the modern reception of Roman spectacles, especially those involving gladiators.
Book Synopsis Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools by : William Francis Allen
Download or read book Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools written by William Francis Allen and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula, a 21st -century Perspective by : Tony Wilmott
Download or read book Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula, a 21st -century Perspective written by Tony Wilmott and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the conference held by The Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007 This book includes papers from the international conference held at Chester, England, in February 2007 on Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacular.
Book Synopsis Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools by : Philip Van Ness Myers
Download or read book Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by : Gillian Arrighi
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Circus written by Gillian Arrighi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.
Book Synopsis A history of Rome by : Philip Van Ness Myers
Download or read book A history of Rome written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Roman Public Buildings by : I. M. Barton
Download or read book Roman Public Buildings written by I. M. Barton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Public Buildings was first published in the Exeter Studies in History series in 1989. It examines the development of Roman architecture and the significance of different types of buildings for the political, social and economic history of the period. A glossary of technical terms is included.
Download or read book Verissimus written by Donald J. Robertson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Logicomix, Donald J. Robertson's Verissimus is a riveting graphic novel on the life and stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic of antiquity but he was also to become the most powerful man in the known world – the Roman emperor. After losing his father at an early age, he threw himself into the study of philosophy. The closest thing history knew to a philosopher-king, yet constant warfare and an accursed plague almost brought his empire to its knees. “Life is warfare”, he wrote, “and a sojourn in foreign land!” One thing alone could save him: philosophy, the love of wisdom! The remarkable story of Marcus Aurelius’ life and philosophical journey is brought to life by philosopher and psychotherapist Donald J. Robertson, in a sweeping historical epic of a graphic novel, based on a close study of the historical evidence, with the stunning full-color artwork of award-winning illustrator Zé Nuno Fraga.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre by : David Bomgardner
Download or read book The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre written by David Bomgardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman amphitheatre was a site both of bloody combat and marvellous spectacle, symbolic of the might of Empire; to understand the importance of the amphitheatre is to understand a key element in the social and political life of the Roman ruling classes. Generously illustrated with 141 plans and photographs, The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre offers a comprehensive picture of the origins, development, and eventual decline of the most typical and evocative of Roman monuments. With a detailed examination of the Colosseum, as well as case studies of significant sites from Italy, Gaul, Spain and Roman North Africa, the book is a fascinating gazetteer for the general reader as well as a valuable tool for students and academics.
Book Synopsis Cruelty and Civilization by : Roland Auguet
Download or read book Cruelty and Civilization written by Roland Auguet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Auguet examines the Roman taste for blood and considers what the games, that strange combination of Cruelty and Civilization, reveal about the Roman mentality. He shows how the great spectacles became a part of city life - they were awaited with impatience, everyone discussed them, some applauded the action in the arena, while others booed frantically. This book provides an exciting history of gladiators, chariot racing and other games as well as an investigation of their function and significance within society. It is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Romans' violent form of entertainment.
Book Synopsis Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine by : Zeev Weiss
Download or read book Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine written by Zeev Weiss and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wishing to ingratiate himself with Rome, Herod the Great built theaters, amphitheaters, and hippodromes to bring pagan entertainments of all sorts to Palestine. Zeev Weiss explores how the indigenous Jewish and Christian populations responded, as both spectators and performers, to these cultural imports, which left a lasting imprint on the region.
Book Synopsis Roman Circuses by : John H. Humphrey
Download or read book Roman Circuses written by John H. Humphrey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Roman Life Under the Caesars by : Emile Thomas
Download or read book Roman Life Under the Caesars written by Emile Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
