Download or read book Mars the Avenger written by Alan Scribner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mars the Avenger is an historical mystery set in the year 158 CE, during the reign of Antoninus Pius, a period often called the height of the Roman Empire. It is also a daily life in ancient Rome at that time a sojourn into the world of Roman life and courts, police and criminal law. In the novel, Marcus Flavius Severus, a judge of the Court of the Urban Prefect investigates the disappearance of the wife of a Roman senator. At the same time, a sensational crime is perpetrated in the City when a body of a murdered man is discovered on the steps of the Temple of Mars the Avenger. As the investigation unfolds, the two cases become connected to a love affair seventeen years before in the Roman orient. Judge Severus, with the assistance of his court and police aids, tracks down clues and witnesses, leading them through the City and society of ancient Rome. Scenes are set, among other places, in a slave market, in the majestic public baths of Trajan, in wealthy villas and tenement apartment houses in which most Romans lived, in a tavern in the notorious Subura district and at the chariot races in the Circus Maximus. There are also scenes in a Roman Court and the book is accurate as to the criminal laws of the time, including the use of judicial torture. All laws, rescripts and legal procedures are from Roman law sources. The novel also introduces a perspicacious new detective in the person of Roman judge Marcus Flavius Severus."--Back cover.
Download or read book Martian Avenger written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2021 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby born of two worlds was this Martian, but even after thousands of years he remembered that revenge was his mission on Earth! John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms including Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki, Astron Del Martia (and others). He remains best known for his long-running Golden Amazon saga. At times these drew on the pulp traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Fearn also wrote Westerns and crime fiction.
Download or read book Ruins of Ancient Rome written by Roberto Cassanelli and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally a critical component of the education of any architect was to draw the ruins of ancient Rome, reconstructing either from ancient sources or, more often, pure fantasy, what the original structures must have looked like. From this training emerged generations of architects imbued with the aesthetic ideals that would form the Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts building styles. In this magnificently printed volume are reproduced some of the most extraordinarily handsome drawings of the ruins of ancient Rome made by French "Prix de Rome" architects from 1775 through 1925. Accompanied by text that explains how the Prix de Rome was awarded and the significance of the prize in the history of architecture, as well as how the study of ancient models formed the basis for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural styles, these drawings provide an invaluable understanding of how the modern imagination recorded and transformed ancient fragments into a modern architectural idiom.
Download or read book A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius written by Juvenal and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of Roman Temples written by John W. Stamper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD. John Stamper analyzes the temples' formal qualities, the public spaces in which they were located and, most importantly, the authority of precedent in their designs. He also traces Rome's temple architecture as it evolved over time and how it accommodated changing political and religious contexts, as well as the affects of new stylistic influences.
Download or read book Playing with Time written by Carole Elizabeth Newlands and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Fasti, unlike his Metamorphoses, is anchored in Rome: religion, history and legend, monuments, and character. The poem interprets the Augustan period not as a golden age of peace and prosperity, Carole E. Newlands asserts, but as an age of experimentation, negotiation, compromise, and unresolved tensions. Newlands maintains that, despite the Fasti's basic adherence to the format of the calendar, the text is carefully constructed to reflect the tensions within its subject: the new Roman year. Ovid plays with the calendar. Through the alteration or omission of significant dates, through skilled juxtapositions, through multiple narrators and the development of an increasingly unreliable authorial persona, Ovid opens to a critical and often humorous scrutiny the political ideology of the calendar. By adding astronomical observations and aetiological explanations for certain constellations, Newlands says, Ovid introduced the richly allusive world of Greek mythology to the calendar. Newlands restores the poem to a position of importance, one displaying Ovid's wit and intellect at its best. The incompleteness of the Fasti, she adds, is a comment on the discord that characterized Augustus' later years and led to enforced silences.
Download or read book A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius with notes by M Madan written by Juvenal and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius written by Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius with Notes A New Edition By the Rev McMadan written by Decimus Junius JUVENALIS and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mars written by Teri Temple and published by Gods and Goddesses of Ancient. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this media advanced book to learn about Mars, the Roman god of war.
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Download or read book Architectura Numismatica or architectural medals of classic antiquity illustrated and explained by comparison with the monuments and the descriptions of ancient authors written by Thomas Leverton DONALDSON and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architectura Numismatica written by Thomas Leverton Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architectura Numismatica Or Architectural Medals of Classic Antiquity written by Thomas Leverton Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
