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Author : Geoffrey Trease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Message to Hadrian written by Geoffrey Trease and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical novel about the Roman Emperor Hadrian and how a young boy risked life and limb to bring him an important message from England.
Author : Geoffrey Trease
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780814904299
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Message to Hadrian written by Geoffrey Trease and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1955 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Trease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976638629
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Word to Caesar written by Geoffrey Trease and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left an orphan by the uprising of the tribes in Britain, a young man must make his way across the Roman Empire to deliver a message of importance to Emperor Hadrian. Along the way he meets villains, charioteers, and at last the emporer he seeks. A great adventure story!
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 : 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 : William Dietrich
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0061744808
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Wall written by William Dietrich and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fusion of Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire and the movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic culture. For three centuries, the stone barrier we know as Hadrian's Wall shielded Roman Britain from the unconquered barbarians of the island's northern highlands. But when Valeria, a senator's daughter, is sent to the Wall for an arranged marriage to an aristocratic officer in 367 AD, her journey unleashes jealousy, passion and epic war. Valeria's new husband, Marcus, has supplanted the brutally efficient veteran soldier Galba as commander of the famed Petriana cavalry. Yet Galba insists on escorting the bride–to–be on her journey to the Wall. Is he submitting to duty? Or plotting revenge? And what is the mysterious past of the handsome barbarian chieftain Arden Caratacus, who springs from ambush and who seems to know so much of hated Rome? As sharp as the edge of a spatha sword and as piercing as a Celtic arrow, Hadrian's Wall evokes a lost world of Roman ideals and barbaric romanticism.
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588368963
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London) Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance. What distinguished Hadrian’s rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire’s long and prosperous future: He ended Rome’s territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively “Hellenized” Rome by anointing Athens the empire’s cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life. By making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.
Author : William Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300053814
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy written by William Lloyd MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art. The inspiration for major developments in villa and landscape design from the Renaissance onward, it also influenced such eminent twentieth-century architects as Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. In this beautiful book, two distinguished architectural historians describe and interpret the Villa as it existed in Roman times and track its extraordinary effect on architects and artists up to the present day. William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto begin by evaluating the numerous buildings composing the complex, and then describe the art, decorated surfaces, gardens, waterworks, and life at the Villa. The authors then turn to the ways the Villa influenced writers, artists, architects, and landscape designers from the fifteenth century to the present. They discuss, for example, Piranesi's archaeological, architectural, and graphic Villa studies in the eighteenth century; connections between Hadrian's Villa and the English landscape garden; the array of European verbal and artistic depictions of the Villa; and architectural studies of the Villa by twentieth-century Americans.
Author : Marco Rizzi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110224712
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Hadrian and the Christians written by Marco Rizzi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Century occupies a central place in the development of ancient Christianity. The aim of the book is to examine how in the cultural, social, and religious efflorescence of the Second Century,to be witnessed inphenomena such as the Second Sophistic, Christianity found a peculiar way of integrating into the more general transformation of the Empire and how this allowed the emerging religion to establish and flourish in Graeco-Roman society. Hadrian’s reign was the starting point ofthat process and opened new possibilities of self-definition and external self-presentation to Christianity, as well asto other social and religious agencies. Differently from Judaism, however, Christianity fully seized the opportunity,thus gaining an increasing place in Graeco-Roman society, which ultimately led to the first Christian peace under the Severan emperors. The point at issue is examined from a multi-disciplinary perspective (including archaeology, cultural, religious, and political history) to challenge well-established, but no longer satisfactory, historical and hermeneutical paradigms. The contributors aim to examine institutional issues and sociocultural processes in their different aspects, as they were made possibleon Hadrian’s initiative andresulted inthemerge of early Christianityinto the Roman Empire.
Author : A.C. Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450271685
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Definitely Deadly written by A.C. Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a quiet night on the town, Dev Xander and Kaz Shade suddenly find themselves surrounded by a flock of vampires. Mistaking the two men for humans and easy prey, the vampires move in for the kill. But the vampires have made a deadly mistake. Dev and Kaz arent human; they are Deadliesthe Seven Deadly SinsEnforcers who execute the supernatural bad guys. Dev and Kaz deal with the vampires in typical Enforcer fashion. But killing Snake, the leader, is only the beginning. A sovereign vampire controls this merry little band of bloodsuckers, and the Enforcers must determine who it is and execute him before the human death toll rises too high. During their search, the Enforcers perform a few executions, rescue a few gnomes, and still find time to fall in love. Half-daemon, half-human, and all trouble, Dev struggles with his strong attraction to Maia Severn, a werewolf who is their liaison with all things gruesome. Two women from another Enforcers past reappear, and they both have designs on him. NO ONE SAID THIS MISSION WAS GOING TO BE EASY.
Author : Richard Yeo
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780996357
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Trader written by Richard Yeo and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucius is a young Centurion in the time of Hadrian, serving at Trimontium, modern-day Melrose in southern Scotland. Trista is a Roman patrician girl, living in Gaul. She is orphaned and becomes a vagrant when her parents are killed by traitors plotting to overthrow the emperor. Following the death of his wife, Lucius becomes an imperial agent, operating beyond the borders of the Empire as a trader, seeking signs of invasion. He meets Trista who is under threat of assassination. The story follows their flight across Gaul, pursued by evil forces, to the German forests in a race to avert invasion and the death of the emperor. ,
Author : Gail Logan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 144017041X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Time Is of the Essence written by Gail Logan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was helf past midnight when Harry, Amelia and Natasha stood in the midst of an empty circus arena. Vorelis began going through his famous light show routine. On ordinary occasions, midway through such a routine, people would have been brought to their feet with cheers and applause. Now there was no audience. Vorelis stepped beyond what he ordinarily did during a show. The light performance quickly became something else. Suddenly the arena disappeared. Harry, Amelia and Natasha found themselves standing in a field. It was daylight and in the distance cows were grazing.
Author : Geoffrey Trease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book An Adventure Story of Ancient Rome written by Geoffrey Trease and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
ISBN 13 : 1473009340
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Rome written by The Open University and published by The Open University. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 10-hour free course explored the city of Rome during the reign of the emperor Hadrian and the impact Hadrian had on the appearance of the city.
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 : Tony Wilmott
Publisher : English Heritage
ISBN 13 : 1848021585
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Hadrian's Wall written by Tony Wilmott and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1976 to 2000 English Heritage archaeologists undertook excavation and research on Hadrian's Wall. This book reports on these findings and includes the first publication, of the James Irwin Coates archive of drawings of Hadrian' Wall made in 1877-96.
Author : Alice König
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108420591
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian written by Alice König and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). Authors treated include Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus. Key topics and approaches include recitation, allusion, intertextuality, 'extratextuality' and socioliterary interactions.
