Author: Cara BerkeleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Some Roman Monuments in the Light of History
Author: Cara BerkeleySome Roman Monuments in the Light of History
Author: Cara BerkeleyPublisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries
Author: Rodolfo Amedeo LancianiPublisher:
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Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Destruction of Ancient Rome
Author: Rodolfo Amedeo LancianiPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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History
Author: Rising from the Ruins
Author: Bruce C. SwaffieldPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443815853
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The neoclassic tendency to write about the ruins of Rome was both an attempt to recapture the grandeur of the “golden age” of man and a lament for the passing of a great civilization. John Dyer, who wrote The Ruins of Rome in 1740, was largely responsible for the eighteenth-century revival of a unique subgenre of landscape poetry dealing with ruins of the ancient world. Few poems about the ruins had been written since Antiquités de Rome in 1558 by Joachim Du Bellay. Dyer was one of first neoclassic poets to return to the decaying stones of a past society as a source of poetic inspiration and imagination. He views the relics as monuments of grandeur and greatness, but also of impending death and destruction. While following most of the rules and standards of neoclassicism—that of imitating nature and giving pleasure to a reader—Dyer also includes his personal reactions and emotions in The Ruins of Rome. The work is composed from the position of a poet who serves as interpreter and translator of the subject, a primary characteristic of “prospect” poetry in the eighteenth century. Numerous other writers quickly followed Dyer’s example, including George Keate, William Whitehead and William Parsons. The tendency by these poets to write about the ruins of Rome from a subjective point of view was one of the strongest themes in what Northrop Frye has called the “Age of Sensibility.” Although the renewed interest in Roman ruins lasted well into the nineteenth century, influencing Romantic poets from Lord Byron to William Wordsworth, the evolution of this type of verse was a gradual process: it originated with Du Bellay’s poem, continued through seventeenth-century paintings by Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa (along with the later art of Piranesi and Pannini), and reached maturity with the poetic interest in the imagination in the eighteenth century. All of these factors, especially the tendency of poets to record their subjective feelings and insights concerning the ruins, are elements that proved to be instrumental in the eventual development of Romanticism.
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Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries
Author: Rodolfo Amedeo LancianiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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The Monuments of Ancient Rome
Author: Dorothy Mae RobathanPublisher:
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Category : Monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Chained in Christ
Author: Craig WansinkPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567511642
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
For Paul, who imprisoned Christians, his own incarceration ironically became a way in which he understood his mission. Paul's convictions and his rhetoric were often shaped during those times when chains constrained him from travelling. By examining a wide variety of sources-such as ancient novels, dream interpretations and moral tractates-Wansink first describes prison conditions and the daily life of prisoners, in the Graeco-Roman world. Subsequent exegetical chapters focus on two epistles Paul wrote from prison: Philippians and Philemon. This book replaces a 'docetic' view of Paul's incarceration with an original insight into how prison would have shaped his interaction with the Philippians and Philemon.