Two Thousand Years in Rome
Author : Richard Mertz
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Rome
ISBN :
When in Rome
Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1781010226
Book Description
This “dashing chronicle” reveals what tourists have been visiting in Rome, from the era of the Roman Republic to contemporary times (The Independent). There is no place like Rome. Throughout its long, long history, its many changes in form and fortune, Rome has always been a tourist centre. In every age—Classical, Christian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Modern—people have flocked to see its wonders. This is the story of what Rome’s visitors have looked at over the past two thousand years, the buildings, the statues, the paintings, the artifacts that have most impressed each generation of travellers from the time of the Roman Republic in the second century BC up to the present age of mass tourism. It is the history both of how Rome has changed with the centuries and how the taste of those who have visited the city has changed with it.
Two Thousand Years of Solitude
Author : Jennifer Ingleheart
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0191619132
Book Description
Banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, the poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors. In his Tristia (Sad Things) and Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature, exploring responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. For a huge variety of writers throughout the world in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the rôle of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experiences of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation; and to explore exile from a number of perspectives, including both the personal and the fictional.
The Silk Road
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520243408
Book Description
This gorgeously illustrated oversized book brings the history and cultures of the Silk Road alive -- from its beginnings to the present day -- covering more than 5000 years.
Rome's Last Citizen
Author : Rob Goodman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312681232
Book Description
This biography of Marcus Cato the Younger -- Rome's bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier, a Stoic philosopher, and staunch defender of sacred Roman tradition -- is rich with resonances for current politics and contemporary notions of freedom.
Sacred Tracks
Author : James Harpur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520233959
Book Description
"Drawing on contemporary accounts and a wealth of illustration, Sacred Treks captures the atmosphere of pilgrimage through the ages. Divided into three sections - "Early Paths," "Medieval Roads," and "Modern Ways" - the book describes every aspect of pilgrimage past and present, from the practicalities of setting out, to the difficult conditions of travel, to the great sites such as Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela, and Canterbury. The book looks at the pilgrims themselves, from St. Brendan, who is said to have cast himself adrift, letting God guide his search for a paradisal holy island, to the penitents, cure-seekers, and adventurers who in the Middle Ages set out for the unknown in their millions."
Two Thousand Years with the Word
Author : C. H. Ren
Publisher : Institute for Christianity
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0788016059
Book Description
The First Thousand Years
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300118848
Book Description
Describes the first 1,000 years of Christian history, from the early practices and beliefs through the conversion of Constantine as well as documenting its growth to communities in Ethiopia, Armenia, Central Asia, India and China.
Two Thousand Years of Missions Before Carey
Author : Lemuel Call Barnes
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120615397
Book Description
Based upon and embodying many of the earliest extent Accounts with map and illustrations Part 1: Genesis Missions, Part II: distributions of Missions: Asia, Africa, Europe, Artic Regions, America. Part III: Continuity of Missions, 32 plates, 152 illust., 1 map.
Two Thousand Years Ago
Author : Charles A. Frazee
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802848055
Book Description
The story of Jesus dominates the history of the first century AD in the Near East, but what was happening elsewhere at this time? This book puts the life of Jesus and the events associated with him within a world context, not in terms of Jesus' world influence, which did not exist at this time, but purely as a means of interesting comparison.
