Reproducing Rome

Author : Mairéad McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199659362
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reproducing Rome written by Mairéad McAuley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproducing Rome is a study of the representation of maternity in the Roman literature of the first century CE-particularly Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius-considering to what degree it reflects, constructs, or subverts Roman ideals of, and anxieties about, family and motherhood.

Author : Angela Hug
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004540784
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome written by Angela Hug and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman women bore children not just for their husbands, but for the Roman state. This book is the first comprehensive study of the importance of fecunditas (human fertility) in Roman society, c. 100 BC - AD 300. Its focus is the cultural impact of fecunditas, from gendered assumptions about infertility, to the social capital children brought to a marriage, to the emperors’ exploitation of fecunditas to build and preserve dynasties. Using a rich range of source material - literary, juristic, epigraphic, numismatic - never before collected, it explores how the Romans shaped fecunditas into an essential female virtue.

Author : Elina Pyy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443452
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and War in Roman Epic written by Elina Pyy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classical narratology and Julia Kristeva’s subjectivity theory, Pyy scrutinises how gendered marginality is constructed in the genre and how it contributes to the fashioning of Roman imperial identity. Focusing on the ambiguous elements of epic, the study looks beyond the binary oppositions between the Self and the Other, male and female, and Roman and barbarian.

Author : sir Henry Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on mosaic pictures for wall decorations, and notes of objects in Italy suitable for reproduction by various methods, by mr. Cole and lt.-col. [H.Y.D.] Scott written by sir Henry Cole and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Thomas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191558435
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monumentality and the Roman Empire written by Edmund Thomas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This extensively illustrated book, the first full-length study of the concept of monumentality in Classical Antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how significant it was for the Romans themselves in moulding their individual or collective aspirations and identities. Although no single word existed in antiquity for the qualities that modern authors regard as making up that term, its Latin derivation - from monumentum, 'a monument' - attests plainly to the presence of the concept in the mentalities of ancient Romans, and the development of that notion through the Roman era laid the foundation for the classical ideal of monumentality, which reached a height in early modern Europe. This book is also the first full-length study of architecture in the Antonine Age - when it is generally agreed the Roman Empire was at its height. By exploring the public architecture of Roman Italy and both Western and Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the benefactors who funded such buildings, the architects who designed them, and the public who used and experienced them, Edmund Thomas analyses the reasons why Roman builders sought to construct monumental buildings and uncovers the close link between architectural monumentality and the identity and ideology of the Roman Empire itself.

Author : John Reynell Morell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of England, by J.R. and C. Morell written by John Reynell Morell and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593318323
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whereabouts written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. “Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them.” —O, the Oprah Magazine Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone. We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her husband’s untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman’s path are colleagues with whom she feels ill at ease, casual acquaintances, and “him,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change. This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make Lahiri’s work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling, richly textured physical and emotional landscapes, and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts, brimming with the impulse to cross barriers, also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Modern Styles of Architecture ... Second Edition, Forming the Fourth Volume of the New Edition of The'History of Architecture.'With 332 Engravings written by James Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Modern Styles of Architecture written by James Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giles Christopher Savage
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Cycles of Time and Seasons Based on the Reproduced Ancient Hebrew Calendar written by Giles Christopher Savage and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: