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Author : Sulamith Ish-Kishor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Magnificent Hadrian written by Sulamith Ish-Kishor and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ferdinand Gregorovius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Emperor Hadrian written by Ferdinand Gregorovius and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thorsten Opper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674030954
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Hadrian written by Thorsten Opper and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hadrian, a Roman emperor, the builder of Hadrian's Wall in the north of England, a restless and ambitious man who was interested in architecture and was passionate about Greece and Greek culture. Is this the common image today of the ruler of one of the greatest powers of the ancient world?" "Published to complement a major exhibition at the British Museum, this wide-ranging book rediscovers Hadrian. The sharp contradictions in his personality are examined, previous concepts are questioned and myths that surround him are exploded." --Book Jacket.
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178185209X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome written by Anthony Everitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and bred in what is now northern Spain to a family of olive-oil magnates, Hadrian was lucky enough to benefit from the patronage of his maternal cousin, Trajan, who would later become emperor, and who named Hadrian his successor on his death in AD 117. After suppressing the Jewish revolt that had started under Trajan (memorably depicted in Josephus' Jewish War), Hadrian brought years of turbulence to an end. He presided over Rome's expansion to its greatest extent, travelling all over his empire to fortify its borders and, notably, building a wall to demarcate its northern extreme in the island of Britain (as well as another in Germany). Hadrian also 'Hellenized' the cultural life of the empire, and left an extraordinary legacy, yet he remains one of the least-known of Rome's emperors. Using exhaustive research, Anthony Everitt unveils the private life and character of this most successful of emperors, in the most vivid and exciting retelling of his story to date.
Author : Ephraim Kishon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Magnificent Hadrian written by Ephraim Kishon and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Le Roy
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892366699
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (666 download)
Download or read book The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece written by David Le Roy and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking engravings of Julien-David Le Roy's The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758) first revealed the architectural wonders of ancient Athens to the West. Part architectural theory, part archaeological report, part travelogue, the greatly expanded edition of 1770 -- here translated into English -- is entirely original in its understanding of the spirit of classical Greek architecture and in its influence on the direction of contemporary architectural creation. Book jacket.
Author : Frederic E. Rusch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252029431
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Theodore Dreiser written by Frederic E. Rusch and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardly shy about himself or his work, Theodore Dreiser knew the value of publicity. Over four decades he often consented to interviews, answering questions about his fiction, his politics, and even previous interviews. Throughout his life Dreiser raised a storm of protest with his realistic novels, blistered public figures and other authors with untempered criticism, scorned pieties masking brutality in law and economics, and expressed a few contradictions of his own. This volume collects for the first time more than seventy interviews. As a group, they show Dreiser dealing with an array of literary and social issues, as well as his lifelong incapacity to mince words. Dreiser is revealed in these interviews as a public figure of epic proportions.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1579580408
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Frank Northen Magill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 250 entries, each volume of theDictionary of World Biographycontains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
Author : Elizabeth Speller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195176131
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Following Hadrian written by Elizabeth Speller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest - and most enigmatic - Roman emperors, Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders, established peace throughout the empire, patronized the arts, and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli, the domed wonder of the Pantheon, and the eponymous wall that stretches across Britain. Yet the story of his reign is also a tale of intrigue, domestic discord, and murder. In Following Hadrian, Elizabeth Speller illuminates the fascinating life of Hadrian, rule of the most powerful empire on earth at the peak of its glory. Speller displays a superb gift for narrative as she traces the intrigue of Hadrian's rise, making brilliant use of her sources and vividly depicting Hadrian's bouts of melancholy, his intellectual passions, his love for a beautiful boy (whose death sent him into a spiral), and the paradox of his general policies of peace and religious tolerance even as he conducted a bitter, three-year war with Judea. Most important, the author captures the emperor as both a builder and an inveterate traveler, guiding readers on a grand tour of the Roman Empire at the moment of its greatest extent and accomplishment.
Author : Ferdinand Gregorovius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Emperor Hadrian written by Ferdinand Gregorovius and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Bradley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487548893
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian written by Keith Bradley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires has a claim to historical authenticity. In Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian, Keith Bradley explains how Mémoires d’Hadrien came to be written, gives details of Yourcenar’s own biography, and describes some of the intricate historical problems that her novel’s portrait of Hadrian presents. He draws on Yourcenar’s correspondence, her interviews with journalists, and her literary corpus as a whole, emphasizing Yourcenar’s profound knowledge of the ancient evidence on which her life of Hadrian is based and exploiting a wide range of contemporary Yourcenarian criticism. The book pays special attention to the methods by which Yourcenar believed Hadrian’s life history to be recoverable, compares examples of modern life-writing, and contrasts the procedures of conventional Roman biographers. Revealing how and why Mémoires d’Hadrien is as it is, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian illustrates how imaginative literary recreation is often little different from historical speculation.
Author : Anthony R Birley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135952337
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Hadrian written by Anthony R Birley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the 'Greek Renaissance' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his 'Greek' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy. No comprehensive account of Hadrian's life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favourite, Antinous, to provide a thorough and fascinating account of the private and public life of a man who, though hated when he died, left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire.
Author : Richard Hingley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199641412
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Wall written by Richard Hingley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hadrian's Wall: A Life, Hingley addresses the post-Roman history of Hadrian's Wall, and considers the ways in which the monument has been imagined, represented, and researched from the sixth century to the internet. With over 100 images, it discusses the significant political, cultural, and religious role the Wall has played over the years.
Author : Shawn St. Jean
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638873
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Pagan Dreiser written by Shawn St. Jean and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents
Author : Izabela Miszczak
Publisher : ASLAN Izabela Sobota-Miszczak
ISBN 13 : 8366950085
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (669 download)
Download or read book From Antalya to Alanya. Highlights of the Turkish Riviera written by Izabela Miszczak and published by ASLAN Izabela Sobota-Miszczak. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Antalya to Alanya. Highlights of the Turkish Riviera is a guidebook which has been written for the travellers who intend to spend active holidays on the Turkish Riviera. If you want not only to relax and sunbathe, but also to visit some fascinating prehistoric sites, historical cities, and archaeological excavations, this is the book for you. This guidebook will help history lovers to plan the entire journey along the stretch of the Mediterranean Sea coast from Antalya to Alanya and to select the places worth seeing, including rarely visited ruins of ancient cities.The book is divided into ten main chapters organized geographically - from Antalya region in the west, through Side and Alanya, to Gazipaşa in the east. In each chapter, you will find a precise location of the described location, along with a handy QR code to conveniently display it on your smartphone or tablet. There are also numerous photos of the discussed places that will help you decide if they deserve your visit. Naturally, there are in-depth descriptions of the sites, their history and present condition. Finally, throughout the guidebook, you will find a general map of the region and three detailed city plans.
Author : Martin Stannard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134723709
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Evelyn Waugh written by Martin Stannard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 voulme set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Author : Douglas Jackson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448127696
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Enemy of Rome written by Douglas Jackson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, adrenalin-fuelled historical page-turner from bestselling author Douglas Jackson. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane. Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens! "Once you have started you will want to read every volume in this exciting series [set] during one of the most turbulent times in Roman history" - 5 STARS "Douglas Jackson undoubtedly holds the crown as king of his genre" - 5 STARS "It is another tough book to put down" - 5 STARS "An entertaining and compelling read that makes you feel as if you were there!" - 5 STARS ***************************************** LIVE BY THE SWORD. DIE BY THE SWORD. Summer, AD 69: Rome and its empire are in turmoil. The emperor Otho is dead by his own hand and his rival, Aulus Vitellius, occupies the imperial throne. However, a new challenge has arisen in the East - the legions of Titus Flavius Vespasian have declared him their Emperor. In the dry heat of an August morning, Gaius Valerius Verrens prepares for his last day on Earth. Wrongly accused of deserting his legion on the field of Bedriacum, it seems he is destined to die a coward's death. Then the executioner's hand is stayed. Vitellius' enemies will spare his life if he pledges allegiance to Vespasian. Valerius - tired of the endless slaughter - agrees. And so he must battle his way south to Rome in order to persuade his friend Vitellius to stand down for the greater good. But this is civil war and this is Rome, and Valerius - his loyalties divided and branded an enemy of the people - is trapped in a maze of distrust, corruption, betrayal and blood-letting . . . Gaius Valerius Verrens's adventures continue in Scourge of Rome.
