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Rhea Silvia

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Author : Debra May Macleod
Publisher : Debra May Macleod
ISBN 13 : 1990640001
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Rhea Silvia written by Debra May Macleod and published by Debra May Macleod. This book was released on with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching, breathtaking retelling of the story of Rhea Silvia, fated by the gods to play a spectacular part in the mythos of Rome—the mother of Romulus, Rome’s legendary founder. It is 772 BCE, nearly two decades before the birth of Rome. The city of Alba Longa and its king, Numitor, reign supreme. But Numitor’s children, Princess Rhea Silvia and Prince Egestus, fear for the city’s future. With Rhea set to marry an unpredictable enemy, they can see the end of their family’s dynasty as surely as their ancestor Aeneas saw the fall of Troy. In a bid to maintain power, Rhea is set on a harrowing course that will push her to the limits of human endurance, forcing her to turn to the gods and rise with the ferocity imbued in her Trojan blood, sacrificing everything for the new Troy—Rome. RHEA SILVIA is the first novel in The First Vestals of Rome, an epic trilogy about the founding Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome. About The First Vestals of Rome Trilogy Set in the 8th century BCE, The First Vestals of Rome is an action-packed trilogy that dramatizes the sensational, often perilous lives of three legendary women who gave rise to Rome’s powerful order of Vestal Virgins. All of them central to the life of Romulus, Rome’s founder, these tectonic women were fated to shape the history of the Eternal City as much as any Caesar who came after them. Editorial Reviews for RHEA SILVIA "This novel turns the myth of Romulus and Remus into a plausible and energetic history but has many graphic scenes of the torture, assassination and aberrant behavior that would come to mark the Roman Empire...[A] vibrant, enthralling tale." - The Historical Novel Society "The dramatization of the scenes is superb, it keeps the reader captivated and intrigued...[the novel] brings you from "old" to "new" with brilliant clarity. If you love history, the Roman empire and the sex, fights and deception that allowed these privileged people to create one of the greatest cultures in the world, you will love this book." - Book Junkie Reviews

Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics

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Author : Melissa M. Matthes
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271039343
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics written by Melissa M. Matthes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthes (U. of Maryland) stages a conversation between feminism and republicanism to analyze the linkage between "founding stories" of republics, sexual violence, and gender hierarchy. While pointing out the differences in the retellings of Lucretia's rape by Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau, she argues that their commonality is in appropriating the classical tale to support the view that the alternative to violence is citizenship and politics infused with common good notions of agency, action, and community. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

She-Wolf

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Author : Cristina Mazzoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113978854X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book She-Wolf written by Cristina Mazzoni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, the she-wolf has served as the potent symbol of Rome. For more than two thousand years, the legendary animal that rescued Romulus and Remus has been the subject of historical and political accounts, literary treatments in poetry and prose, and visual representations in every medium. In She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to contemporary times. Used, for example, as an icon of Roman imperial power, papal authority, and the distance between the present and the past, the she-wolf has also served as an allegory for greed, good politics, excessive female sexuality, and, most recently, modern, multi-cultural Rome. Mazzoni engagingly analyzes the various role guises of the she-wolf over time in the first comprehensive study in any language on this subject.

Livy

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Author : Gary B. Miles
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724614
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Livy written by Gary B. Miles and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some critics of the Roman historian Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) have dismissed his work as a compendium of stale narratives and conventional attitudes. Gary B. Miles reveals in Livy's history a creative interplay between traditional stories, contemporary ideological assumptions, and the historian's own perspective at the margins of Roman aristocracy. Drawing on a range of critical approaches, Miles considers Livy's stance as a historian, the ways in which he reworked his sources, and his interpretation of such historical phenomena as recurrence, continuity, and change. Miles focuses on the foundation stories with which Livy begins his account, detecting in Livy's rendition certain original conceptions of historical time including the suggestion that Roman identity and greatness might be preserved indefinitely through successive reenactments of a historical cycle. Miles pays particular attention to two stories—those of the abduction of the Sabine women and of Romulus and Remus, showing how Livy's versions of these traditional narratives—far from leading to a simplistic moral—address unresolved political issues of his day. According to Miles, Livy shows an unusually tenacious willingness to confront dilemmas in historiography and Roman ideology which were commonly ignored or suppressed by both his predecessors and his contemporaries.

Empire

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Author : Steven Saylor
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429964995
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Empire written by Steven Saylor and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" —USA Today on Roma Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times bestselling novel Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to height of Rome's empire. The Pinarii, generation after generation, are witness to greatest empire in the ancient world and of the emperors that ruled it—from the machinations of Tiberius and the madness of Caligula, to the decadence of Nero and the golden age of Trajan and Hadrian and more. Empire is filled with the dramatic, defining moments of the age, including the Great Fire, the persecution of the Christians, and the astounding opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novel's heart are the choices and temptations faced by each generation of the Pinarii. Steven Saylor once again brings the ancient world to vivid life in a novel that tells the story of a city and a people that has endured in the world's imagination like no other.

Emperors and Ancestors

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Author : Olivier Hekster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191056553
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Emperors and Ancestors written by Olivier Hekster and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Looking beyond individual rulers, Hekster evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations over a prolonged period of time. The volume explores how the different media in use sent out different messages. The importance of local notions and traditions in the choice of local representations of imperial ancestry are emphasized, revealing that there was no monopoly on image-forming by the Roman centre and far less interaction between central and local imagery than is commonly held. Imperial ancestry is defined through various parallel developments at Rome and in the provinces. Some messages resonated outside the centre but only when they were made explicit and fitted local practice and the discourse of the medium. The construction of imperial ancestry was constrained by the local expectations of how a ruler should present himself, and standardization over time of the images and languages that could be employed in the 'media' at imperial disposal. Roman emperorship is therefore shown to be a constant process of construction within genres of communication, representation, and public symbolism.

The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History

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Author : George Cornewall baronet Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History written by George Cornewall baronet Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History

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Author : Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History written by Sir George Cornewall Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History by the Right Hon Sir George Cornewall Lewis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Life, Death and Representation

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Author : Jas Elsner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110216787
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Life, Death and Representation written by Jas Elsner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volumepresents acollection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis. There will be an Introduction written by the co-editors.

The Rape of Eve

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Author : Celene Lillie
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506414370
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Rape of Eve written by Celene Lillie and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, violence, power, and redemption. In recent decades, scholars of New Testament and early Christian traditions have given new attention to the relationships between gender and imperial power in the Roman world. In this surprising work, Celene Lillie examines core passages from three Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi, On the Origin of the World, The Reality of the Rulers, and the Secret Revelation of John, in which Eve is portrayed as having been humiliated by the cosmic powers, yet experiencing restoration. Lillie compares that pattern with Gnostic savior motifs concerning Jesus and Seth, then sets it in the broader context of Roman cosmogonic myths at play in imperial ideology. The Nag Hammadi texts, she argues, offer us a window into symbolic forms of Christian resistance to imperial ideology. This groundbreaking study highlights the importance of the Nag Hammadi writings for our fuller appreciation of the currents of Christian response to the Roman Empire and the culture of rape pervasive within it.

Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus

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Author : Paweł Gołyźniak
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789695406
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus written by Paweł Gołyźniak and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies small but highly captivating artworks from antiquity – engraved gemstones. These objects had multiple applications, and the images upon them captured snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They provide a unique perspective on the propaganda of Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus.

Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy

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Author : Emma Scioli
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299303845
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy written by Emma Scioli and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elegists, ancient Rome's most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Emma Scioli examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics of visual representation to share with readers the intensely personal experience of dreaming.

Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600

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Author : Marice Rose
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004289690
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 written by Marice Rose and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 presents scholarship in classical reception at its nexus with art history and gender studies. It considers the ways that artists, patrons, collectors, and viewers in late medieval and early modern Europe used ancient Greek and Roman art, texts, myths, and history to interact with and shape notions of gender. The essays examine Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes, Michelangelo's Medici Chapel personifications, Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and other famous and lesser-known sculptures, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and domestic objects as well as displays of ancient art. Visual responses to antiquity in this era, the volume demonstrates, bore a complex and significant relationship to the construction of, and challenges to, contemporary gender norms.

History of Romulus

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Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book History of Romulus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romulus

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Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romulus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: