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Author : Don Westenhaver
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462801706
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Nero's Concert written by Don Westenhaver and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Concert-goer written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1640190074
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Nero written by Lionel Casson and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembered for his excesses and little else, Roman emperor Nero was passionate about technology, was a discriminating patron of the arts and a keen judge of character - and, while Rome burned, an energetic firefighter. Here, in this short-form book from award-winning historian Lionel Casson, is his surprising story.
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0593133218
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Nero written by Anthony Everitt and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome “Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium The Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the stories go, he set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. He then cleared the charred ruins and built a vast palace. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. But these stories, left behind by contemporary historians who hated him, are hardly the full picture, and in this nuanced biography, celebrated historian Anthony Everitt and investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth reveal the contradictions inherent in Nero and offer a reappraisal of his life. Contrary to popular memory, the empire was well managed during his reign. He presided over diplomatic triumphs, and his legions overcame the fiery British queen Boudica who led one of the greatest revolts Rome had ever had to face. He loved art, culture, and music, and he won the loyalty of the lower classes with fantastic spectacles. He did not set fire to Rome. In Nero, ancient Rome comes to life: the fire-prone streets, the deadly political intrigues, and the ongoing architectural projects. In this teeming, politically unstable world, Nero was vulnerable to fierce reproach from the nobility and relatives who would gladly usurp him, and he was often too ready to murder rivals. He had a vision for Rome, but, racked by insecurity, he perhaps lacked the stomach to govern it. This is the bloodstained story of one of Rome’s most notorious emperors: but in Everitt and Ashworth’s hands, Nero’s life is also a complicated, cautionary tale about the mettle required to rule.
Author : Carsten Peter Thiede
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826480675
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Emmaus Mystery written by Carsten Peter Thiede and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, scholars have tried to work out where Emmaus was: where, in other words, the risen Christ walked, ate and revealed himself. It is a crucial location in the map of Christian belief and one of the great missing links of Christian archaeology. This book produces a dramatic find about the lost site of Emmaus, rising again from the soil.
Author : Miriam T. Griffin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415214645
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Nero written by Miriam T. Griffin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. This book offers a fascinating insight into the sensational life and troubled times of the Emperor Nero.
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nero written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Dunstan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742568342
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Ancient Rome written by William E. Dunstan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia. A host of world-famous figures come to life in these pages, including Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Livia, Cicero, Nero, Hadrian, Diocletian, Constantine, Justinian, and Theodora. Filled with chilling narratives of violence, lust, and political expediency, this book not only describes empire-shaping political and military events but also treats social and cultural developments as integral to Roman history. William E. Dunstan highlights such key topics as the physical environment, women, law, the roles of slaves and freedmen, the plight of unprivileged free people, the composition and power of the ruling class, education, popular entertainment, food and clothing, marriage and divorce, sex, death and burial, finance and trade, scientific and medical achievements, religious institutions and practices, and artistic and literary masterpieces. All readers interested in the classical world will find this a fascinating and compelling history.
Author : Richard Holland
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nero written by Richard Holland and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does not whitewash Nero, but it aims to show that he was more of a liberator than an oppressor, that he contrived to rule in peace rather than in the militaristic way of his predecessors, and that he was both enlightened and civilized, a man who enjoyed poetry, music, philosophy and the theatre, as well as erotic delights. Cheered for his performances with the lyre by thousands of screaming followers, his patronage of the arts also left the legacy of the Golden Palace with its rich gold decoration and murals later copied by Raphael and other Renaissance artists in the Vatican. Through social, cultural and archæological evidence, here we encounter Nero imaginatively as a man, not as a monster. [Book jacket].
Author : Katherine E. Welch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521809443
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)
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.
Author : Miriam Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134610440
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Nero written by Miriam Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Julio-Claudian Principate. Nero's suicide brought to an end the dynasty Augustus had founded, and placed in jeopardy the political system he had devised. Miriam T. Griffin's authoratitive survey of Nero's reign incorporates both a chronological account, as well as an analysis of the reasons for Nero's collapse under the pressure of his role as emperor.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Buckley
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745789
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Great Concert of the Night written by Jonathan Buckley and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small hours of January 1st, a man begins to write, having watched Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which a former lover - Imogen - plays a major role. For the next year, he writes something every day. His journal is a ritual of commemoration and an investigation of the character of Imogen and her relationships - with himself; with her family and friends; with other lovers. Imogen is an elusive subject, and The Great Concert of the Night is an intricate text, mixing scenes from the writer's memory and the present day, and scenes from Imogen's films, with observations on a range of subjects, from the visions of female saints to the history of medicine and the festivals of ancient Rome. But one subject comes to occupy him above all: what happens when a person becomes a character on the page.
Author : Constantine Cavafy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375400966
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Constantine Cavafy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a complete collection of the modern Greek poet's work, including his unfinished poems, which explores themes of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, throughout the history of Greek civilization.
Author : Brian Levison
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1910232505
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Classical Music's Strangest Concerts and Characters written by Brian Levison and published by Portico. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracted from five hundred years of musical history, this is a fascinating collection of stories about classical music's most unusual concerts and characters. Tales such as that of the organist caught with his trousers down or the orchestra that played faster and faster so that its members could catch the last train home, the sad story of the composer who committed suicide while conducting, the completely silent piece of music and the stone deaf composer who insisted on conducting will delight all lovers of classical music. Many famous names are here, as well the less eminent music performers, in this fascinating and revealing look at what really goes on in the world of classical music.
Author : Allienne R. Becker
Publisher : Allienne Becker
ISBN 13 : 0595213219
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book I, Paul . . . written by Allienne R. Becker and published by Allienne Becker. This book was released on 2002-01-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, Paul . . .: The Life of the Apostle to the Gentiles is the true and exciting story of Saul of Tarsus who encounters Christ on the road to Damascus and is transformed into Paul, the fearless apostle who carries Christ across the Roman Empire and finally dies for his faith by the sword in Nero's Rome. Although fictionalized to make the events come alive for the reader, the story adheres to the Biblical narratives and Church tradition.
Author : Juvenal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141915013
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Sixteen Satires written by Juvenal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. A member of the traditional land-owning class that was rapidly seeing power slip into the hands of outsiders, Juvenal also creates savage portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - seeking excitement among the lower orders of actors and gladiators, and of the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Constantly comparing the corruption of his own generation with its stern and upright forebears, Juvenal's powers of irony and invective make his work a stunningly satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society
