Author : Pietro Metastasio
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Librettos
ISBN :
Author : William Brighty Rands
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 1857
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Nathanael Andrade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0190638826
Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material culture at Palmyra enable us to know about women and the practice of gender there, and thus the world that Zenobia navigated. It reflects on her clothes, house, hygiene, property owning, gestures, religious practices, funerary practices, education, languages, social identities, marriage, and experiences motherhood, along with her meteoric rise to prominence and civil war. It also ponders Zenobia's legacy in light of the contemporary human tragedy in Syria.
Author : William Ware
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1859
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Zenobia Frost
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2019-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780648511625
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. This book has multiple fire exits. This book has too many keys. You can climb through a window into this book. Some of these poems are not on the lease, and you are willing to take it all the way to the Residential Tenancies Authority. AFTER THE DEMOLITION is about rebuilding as much as it is about taking apart. It is about moving, and about moving on--what we leave behind, and what we attach more firmly to ourselves. When a place is gone--because we've given the keys back, or because the locks are lopped off--our attachment can drive us towards saudade, nostalgia, replication. We mythologise the flaws of our past haunts and past lives, and this determines the ways we start over when everything is air rights.
Author : Gellu Naum
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810112551
A full-length novel by a member of the Romanian literary avant-garde, Zenobia is the evocation of the singular quest of a Surrealist knight-errant who strives to be true to the gentle demands of his lady in a landscape of snares, desolation, incipient madness, and material poverty magically interrupted by moments of extreme beauty. Love, in all its intimate, carnal communion, lights the path through the dark forest, the streets of Bucharest, and the desert swamps. The narrator, speaking from the depths of love and despair, invites the reader to share his quest.
Author : Kelly R. Samuels
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2019-03-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781635348767
Author : Morten Dürr
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1609808746
A deeply moving and award-winning graphic novel about a young Syrian refugee. Zenobia was once a great warrior queen of Syria whose reign reached from Egypt to Turkey. She was courageous. No one gave her orders. Once she even went to war against the emperor of Rome. When things feel overwhelming for Amina, her mother reminds her to think of Zenobia and be strong. Amina is a Syrian girl caught up in a war that reaches her village. To escape the war she boards a small boat crammed with other refugees. The boat is rickety and the turbulent seas send Amina overboard. In the dark water Amina remembers playing hide and seek with her mother and making dolmas (stuffed grape leaves) and the journey she had to undertake with her uncle to escape. And she thinks of the brave warrior Zenobia. Zenobia is a heartbreaking and all-too-real story of one child's experience of war. Told with great sensitivity in few words and almost exclusively with pictures, Zenobia is a story for children and adults.
Author : William Ware
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Tadmur (Syria)
ISBN :
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 147337765X
The story follows a female narrator who, accompanied by her tiny poodle and 3-foot-tall servant, comes across a gothic cathedral whilst walking in a city. When she ascends to the top of the steeple, she attempts to look through a small opening with her servant’s aid. Pushing her head through the hole, she realises that she appears to be inside a large clock face, and that she is destined for a rather novel demise. A humorous satire of the popular Gothic tale, this short story is highly recommended or fans of Poe’s comical work, and would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American author, editor, poet, and critic. Most famous for his stories of mystery and horror, he was one of the first American short story writers, and is widely considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
