Download or read book Empress Octavia written by Wilhelm Walloth and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empress Octavia is a historical romance novel written by Wilhelm Walloth. Set in the first century AD, it portrays the life of Claudia Octavia, descendant of the Emperor Claudius and first spouse of the Emperor Nero.
Download or read book Empress Octavia written by Wilhelm Walloth and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empress of Pompeii written by Lorraine Blundell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 68 AD. A madman rules Rome’s empire while its empress, born in Pompeii, tries desperately to restrain him as he plummets out of control. This is her story. A woman of strength and character, her personality is complex. Endearing and generous, she could also be cruel and calculating. In Pompeii, vicious gladiatorial riots explode. A serial poisoner is at work in the shadows, as Rome burns and Christians are used as flaming human torches to light the palace gardens. ‘Empress of Pompeii’ reveals a rich tapestry of life, from the splendour of Rome’s royal palace and Nero’s golden house to Pompeii’s sordid, murderous laneways, the extravagant villas of the wealthy and the eruption of Vesuvius. Nero rules Rome in a time of fear and turmoil. Desperately, the empress, Poppaea, attempts to protect Pompeii and save her young son’s life. Nero’s praetorian prefect, Tigellinus, cradles her head in his arms as she lies dying in a pool of blood on the marble palace floor, murdered by Nero in a fit of rage. After her death he orders the murder of her son and the boy’s life hangs in the balance. He was later found dead. Or was he? Does the answer lie in Pompeii? 2022 Edition
Download or read book The Tragicomedy of the Virtuous Octavia written by and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English self-labeled “tragicomedy” about Octavia’s failed attempts to win back her inconstant husband, Antony, from his Egyptian lover, Cleopatra, and to prevent her brother, Octavius, from waging retaliatory war on Antony and Cleopatra. This volume presents overwhelming evidence for the re-attribution of the “Samuell Brandon”-bylined The Virtuous Octavia (1598) to Gabriel Harvey. The introduction raises questions about potential attribution leads and revealing relevant sources, which are answered with the evidence in the “Primary Sources” section that includes: three letters exchanged between William Byrd and Harvey while both were teaching at Cambridge, the “Octavia to Anthony” poetic epistle from the Arundel Harington Manuscript, and fragments from Plutarch’s “Mark Antony” chapter. The “Exordium” includes sections that present revealing clues in seemingly mundane details, such as this play’s typesetting. Another introductory section explains how Gerard Langbaine created the first “Brandon” biography solely based on the evidence presented in the Virtuous play, and without any evidence to support that “Brandon” was indeed a real author, and not merely a fictitious pseudonym. The imaginative process Langbaine used to manufacture “Brandon’s” biography is used to explain how scholars have communally arrived at the erroneous current attributions for the texts of the British Renaissance. A section on Harvey’s literary style explains how the texts Harvey ghostwrote differ from the patterns seen in the other Workshop ghostwriters’ texts. Another section presents visual examples of Harvey’s handwriting in his signed annotations on Domenichi’s Facetie, on “J. Harvey’s” A Discursive Problem Concerning Prophesies, and on Nicolai Machiavelli Princeps, and matches these to the handwriting styles currently assigned to two bylines Harvey ghostwrote under: “Edmund Spenser’s” poem on a copy of Sabinus’ Poëmata and “Elizabeth I’s” letter in Italian to Don Ferdinando de Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany. Another section explains how the two dedications to “the virtuous… Mary Thynne” and “the virtuous Lady Lucia Audley” are subversive clues that explain Virtuous Octavia as Harvey’s rebuttal to Percy’s at first anonymous and later “Shakespeare”-bylined Romeo and Juliet (1597). Romeo’s plot has long been suspected to be grounded in the contemporary story of Mary Thynne’s marriage to a member of a rival family, as well as the subsequent violence and litigations over this star-crossed-marriage between Mary’s mother, Lady Audley, and other members of their two clans. And a section on imitation-clusters explains that Virtuous Octavia falls into several sub-genre clusters that turn into an original formula when they are mixed together. These clusters include imitations and translations of the French dramatist Robert Garnier; adaptations of historical plotlines from Plutarch’s Lives; and imitations of Seneca’s tragedies. One of the latter tragedies by Seneca is also called Octavia, and it is about Emperor Nero’s wife of this same name, which had been translated into English by “T. N.” back in 1581. There are also explanation for the seemingly deliberately misdated historical details, such as the mixed references to events that involved M. Marcellus (270-208 BC; 5-time Consul) and G. Marcellus (88-40 BC; 1-time Consul; first husband of Octavia). And sections summarize Virtuous Octavia’s critical reception, give ideas to directors on approaches to its staging, and present an extensive synopsis of its narrative. This verse tragicomedy begins after the Treaty of Tarentum has been signed, renewing the power-split of Roman territories between three Emperors: Octavia’s brother Octavius is awarded the West, Octavia’s husband Antony is awarded the East, and Lepidus receives Africa. Octavia receives news that Antony is living with Cleopatra. When Octavia attempts to bring military reinforcements and to speak with Antony to convince him to return to her, Antony refuses to allow her to come near him. The news of this infidelity enrages Octavius, who decides it is an affront on his own honor, and uses it as a pretext to wage war against Antony, despite Octavia’s continuing petitions for peace and reconcilement. Civil and foreign wars are raging in the background, but most of the play focuses on Octavia’s philosophical and emotional struggle to comprehend why Antony has chosen to sin, and how she is stoically determined to remain constant and virtuous. In a brief mention in the resolution, Cleopatra causes Antony’s tragic death by tricking him into believing she has killed herself, before indeed killing herself. In the forefront of this conclusion, Octavia explains why she continues to be committed to virtuous conduct, despite all that has happened, and to take care of Antony’s children, even when she has to do so outside of Antony’s house (from which he has forcefully evicted her). Acronyms and Figures Exordium Plot and Staging Primary Sources Letters Between Byrd and Harvey “Octavia to Anthony”: Poem from “Daniel’s” Arundel Harington Manuscript Fragments About Octavia from “Thomas North’s” Translation of Plutarch’s “The Life of Mark Antony” Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises
Download or read book Livia Empress of Rome written by Matthew Dennison and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history. Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of Claudius and great grandmother of Caligula, the empress Livia lived close to the center of Roman political power for eight turbulent decades. Her life spanned the years of Rome's transformation from Republic to Empire, and witnessed both its triumphs under the rule of Augustus and its lapse into instability under his dysfunctional successor. Livia was given the honorific title Augusta in her husband's will, and was posthumously deified by the emperor Claudius—but posterity would prove less respectful. The Roman historian Tacitus anathematized her as "malevolent" and a "feminine bully" and inspired Robert Graves's celebrated twentieth-century depiction of Livia in I, Claudius as the quintessence of the scheming matriarch, poisoning her relatives one by one to smooth her son's path to the imperial throne. Livia, Empress of Rome rescues the historical Livia from the crude caricature of popular myth to paint an elegant and richly textured portrait. In this rigorously researched biography, Dennison weighs the evidence found in contemporary sources to present a more nuanced assessment. Livia's true "crime," he reveals, was not murder but the exercise of power. The Livia who emerges here is a complex, courageous and gifted woman, and one of the most fascinating and perplexing figures of the ancient world.
Download or read book The Trial of Her Majesty Queen Caroline Consort of George IV for an Alledged Adulterous Intercourse with Bartolomo Bergami written by Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Daughter of Pompeii written by Lorraine Blundell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARD WINNER: Literary Titan 'A riveting fictional story.' THE LIFE AND DEATH OF POPPAEA (POPPY) EMPRESS OF ROME 30 A.D. The Roman Empire approaches the peak of its power and human life is of so little value, it can be snuffed out like a candle’s flame. A girl known as Poppy is born to a minor patrician family in the relatively insignificant city of Pompeii. She becomes a stunningly beautiful and intelligent young woman, but one day her life is changed forever. The victim of an act of indescribable evil, Poppy is filled with a white, hot anger that demands revenge. Intent on destroying those who have caused her such pain, she rises higher and higher in influence, until she is the most powerful and wealthy woman in the whole of the Roman Empire. She becomes Empress of Rome. Fiercely loyal to those few she trusts and to the city where she was born, Poppy’s friendship with her childhood friend, Farzana, anchors and supports her. This is the story of the real Empress barely touched on by the ancient Roman historians. In an age of murder, greed and obsessive ambition, she clings to her love for Pompeii and is loved in return by its people. As Pompeii’s destruction by Vesuvius grows ever closer, she risks losing everything. But there is one secret that can never be destroyed.
Download or read book Octavia written by Charles V. H. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Women of Imperial Rome written by Jasper Burns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.
Download or read book Ben Hur written by Barry Clifton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the love of a woman...For the love of his people...For the love of God...Ben-Hur: The Odyssey a legend lives again. A.D. 59 A shadow falls over the Roman Empire as Nero, the young emperor, begins to assert a foreboding independence. Disregarding the counsel of his advisers, he openly flaunts his unfaithfulness to his wife Octavia, and then orders the murder of his scheming mother Agrippina. Into this looming storm comes Judah Ben-Hur, his wife Esther and their friend, the great apostle Paul, who has been arrested for his missionary activities. Paul has appealed his conviction to Nero, and Judah - the founder of the church in Rome - offers to defend him, setting up a fateful collision of two worlds. Judah Ben-Hur, one of literature's great fictional heroes, rides again in this stirring sequel to the classic novel by General Lew Wallace. Like its predecessor, Ben-Hur: The Odyssey is woven into a solidly historical tapestry. Great events are brought to life from the first century's most turbulent decade, in this epic tale of love, passion and faith.
Download or read book Darkness and Dawn Or Scenes in the Days of Nero written by Frederic William Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trial of Queen Caroline Consort of George IV on a Charge of Adulterous Intercourse with Her Menial Servant Bartolomeo Bergami written by Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Historical Drama written by Patrick Kragelund and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Historical Drama is the first comprehensive interpretation of ancient historical drama in relation to the Octavia, revealing how the play mirrors the genre's traditions by mixing formats and stock characters from traditional tragedy with elements drawn from new developments of the Hellenistic and Roman stage.
Download or read book The Republican written by Richard Carlile and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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