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Author : Louis Barré
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Herculanum Et Pompéi written by Louis Barré and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Lukas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Pompeii and Herculaneum written by Jan Lukas and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Göran Blix
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201302
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book From Paris to Pompeii written by Göran Blix and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antidote to the French anxiety of amnesia that undermined faith in progress, and it armed writers from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Michelet and Renan with the intellectual tools needed to affirm the indestructible character of the past. From Paris to Pompeii reveals how the nascent science of archaeology lay at the core of the romantic experience of history and shaped the way historians, novelists, artists, and the public at large sought to cope with the relentless change that relegated every new present to history. In postrevolutionary France, the widespread desire to claim that no being, city, culture, or language was ever definitively erased ran much deeper than mere nostalgic and reactionary impulses. Göran Blix contends that this desire was the cornerstone of the substitution of a weak secular form of immortality for the lost certainties of the Christian afterlife. Taking the iconic city of Pompeii as its central example, and ranging widely across French romantic culture, this book examines the formation of a modern archaeological gaze and analyzes its historical ontology, rhetoric of retrieval, and secular theology of memory, before turning to its broader political implications.
Author : Eric Moormann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614518734
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Pompeii's Ashes written by Eric Moormann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii’s Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. “Pompeii’s Ashes” demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.
Author : V. Tran tam Tinh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004294805
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Le culte des divinités orientales à Herculanum written by V. Tran tam Tinh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : August Mau
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Pompeii, Its Life and Art written by August Mau and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the legendary city, literally unearthed from the dust. After the volcano explosion, a stream of lava devastated the town and buried thousands of locals under the river of melted minerals. Centuries later, their last moment was recovered by filling the gaps in petrified lava. Thus, we see the previous inhabitants of Pompei in the final moments of their lives. This work collected the excavation materials, historical documents, and mentions to compile an objective picture of the ancient city's life and arts.
Author : Sarah Court
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066285
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary written by Sarah Court and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a striking account of the life, destruction, rediscovery, and cultural significance of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum and one of its grandest residences—the House of the Bicentenary. This volume vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly two thousand years. Initial chapters offer an engaging historical overview of the town during antiquity, including the riveting story of its rediscovery in the eighteenth century, excavation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and broad cultural significance in modern times. Subsequent chapters offer an interpretive tour of the ancient town, then focus on one of Herculaneum’s grandest and most beautifully decorated private residences, known as the House of the Bicentenary. Located on the town’s main street, it has a range of features—original rooms, magnificent wall paintings and mosaics, and remarkable documents—that illuminate daily life in the ancient world. Final chapters bring the story up to date, including recent discoveries about the site and its famous papyrus manuscripts, as well as ongoing conservation initiatives.
Author : Casimir Chevalier
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Herculanum et Pompéi written by Casimir Chevalier and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060899
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation brings to light the early days of scientific archaeology and the unearthing and study of Herculaneum and Pompeii as observed by the erudite and acerbic art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). His Letter, published in German in 1762, displays his extensive knowledge of geology, ancient literature, and art while offering a scathing critique of the Spanish Bourbon excavations around the Bay of Naples and of the officials involved. He further discusses these topics in his equally controversial Report of 1764. The introduction describes the context in which these texts were written, identifies various politicians, academics, and collectors, and elucidates topics of particular interest to Winckelmann, from artifacts to local customs to the contents of ancient papyri. The illustrations, particularly those from the Bourbon publication--Le Antichità di Ercolano (1757-92)--illuminate how these monuments influenced contemporary perception of the ancient world.
Author : Miko Flohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198786573
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Economy of Pompeii written by Miko Flohr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses, from a variety of perspectives, the economy of the Roman city of Pompeii. It uses archaeological and textual evidence to discuss topics as diverse as agriculture in the fertile plains at the foot of mount Vesuvius, diet and health, manufacturing, urban investment, consumption, trade and money.
Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300272669
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Volcanic written by John Brewer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature. John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travellers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fuelling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins.
Author : Alison E. Cooley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350125245
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Pompeii written by Alison E. Cooley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist destination, Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each year, and images of the town are familiar all around the world. However, even today our picture of the site is being impacted by new archaeological discoveries. This book focuses particularly on the date of the eruption, the natural environment of Pompeii, the recovery of skeletal remains and plaster casts, and Pompeii in the popular imagination. In addition, three new chapters look at the popularization of Pompeii, archaeological reconstruction of the Roman town, and how we know what we know about the people who lived there. The technological advances of the 20th and 21st centuries have transformed our understanding of the urban environment of Pompeii, raising new questions even as they dig ever deeper into the surviving material evidence. This volume offers a succinct and insightful exploration of the impact of these scientific and archaeological innovations, as well as that of contemporary politics, upon interpretations of Pompeii over the last 250 years, including the ways in which advances in volcanology have transformed our picture of its last moments.
Author : Pedar Foss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134689756
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The World of Pompeii written by Pedar Foss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes the latest understanding of the region, based on the up-to-date findings of recent archaeological work. Accompanied by a CD with the most detailed map of Pompeii so far, this book is instrumental in studying the city in the ancient world and is an excellent source book for students of this fascinating and tragic geographic region.
Author : D. Appleton and Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Appleton's Library Manual written by D. Appleton and Company and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Appleton and Co. (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Appleton's Library Manual written by D. Appleton and Co. (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Appletons' Library Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.)
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Appleton's Library Manual written by Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
