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Book No  XIII  or  The Story of the Lost Vestal

Download or read book No XIII or The Story of the Lost Vestal written by Emma Marshall and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel was inspired by the discoveries which have brought to light many interesting relics. Amongst these are the statues of the Vestales Maximæ, of which, in spite of the efforts of the lime-burners and stone-cutters of the Middle Ages, who were distinguished for their work of wholesale destruction, thirty-six inscriptions, and fourteen statues, have been discovered. The pedestals on which the statues were placed bear inscriptions, and the names of the Vestales Maximæ whose virtues are recorded. There is one exception—the name is carefully erased—and we can know her of whom so much is said in praise, only as Number Thirteen. An attempt has been made to clothe the memory of this Vestal with some probable, though of course wholly fictitious, incidents; and to assume as a certainty the idea, which has been thrown out as a possibility, that her conversion to Christianity was discovered, and that one in authority desired to leave no trace of her family or her name to future generations.

Book The Rape of Eve

    Book Details:
  • Author : Celene Lillie
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release : 2017-01-01
  • ISBN : 1506414370
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book The Rape of Eve written by Celene Lillie and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, violence, power, and redemption. In recent decades, scholars of New Testament and early Christian traditions have given new attention to the relationships between gender and imperial power in the Roman world. In this surprising work, Celene Lillie examines core passages from three Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi, On the Origin of the World, The Reality of the Rulers, and the Secret Revelation of John, in which Eve is portrayed as having been humiliated by the cosmic powers, yet experiencing restoration. Lillie compares that pattern with Gnostic savior motifs concerning Jesus and Seth, then sets it in the broader context of Roman cosmogonic myths at play in imperial ideology. The Nag Hammadi texts, she argues, offer us a window into symbolic forms of Christian resistance to imperial ideology. This groundbreaking study highlights the importance of the Nag Hammadi writings for our fuller appreciation of the currents of Christian response to the Roman Empire and the culture of rape pervasive within it.

Book The vestal

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  • Author : Gaspare Spontini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1826
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book The vestal written by Gaspare Spontini and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Traveller In Rome

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  • Author : H.v. Morton
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press
  • Release : 2009-04-24
  • ISBN : 0786730706
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book A Traveller In Rome written by H.v. Morton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.V. Morton's evocative account of his days in 1950s Rome—the fabled era of La Dolce Vita—remains an indispensable guide to what makes the Eternal City eternal. In his characteristic anecdotal style, Morton leads the reader on a well-informed and delightful journey around the city, from the Fontana di Trevi and the Colosseum to the Vatican Gardens loud with exquisite birdsong. He also takes time to consider such eternal topics as the idiosyncrasies of Italian drivers as well as the ominous possibilities behind an unusual absence of pigeons in the Piazza di San Pietro. As TourismWorld.com commented recently: "H.V. Morton.. . .wrote of Rome with style, involvement, and passion. His book In Search of Rome is perhaps the definitive guide book on the Eternal City."

Book Subjecting Verses

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  • Author : Paul Allen Miller
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-10
  • ISBN : 1400825938
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Subjecting Verses written by Paul Allen Miller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry with insights from theoreticians as diverse as Jameson, Foucault, Lacan, and Zizek. In welcome contrast to previous, thematic studies of elegy--efforts that have become bogged down in determining whether particular themes and poets were pro- or anti-Augustan--Miller offers a new, "symptomatic" history. He asks two obvious but rarely posed questions: what historical conditions were necessary to produce elegy, and what provoked its decline? Ultimately, he argues that elegiac poetry arose from a fundamental split in the nature of subjectivity that occurred in the late first century--a split symptomatic of the historical changes taking place at the time. Subjecting Verses is a major interpretive feat whose influence will reach across classics and literary studies. Linking the rise of elegy with changes in how Romans imagined themselves within a rapidly changing society, it offers a new model of literary theory that neither reduces the poems to a reflection of their context nor examines them in a vacuum.

Book Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion  Volume 2  Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual

Download or read book Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion Volume 2 Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual written by Henk Versnel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a two-volume collection of studies on inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. While the first volume focused on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism, the present one discusses the ambiguities in myth and ritual of transition and reversal. After an introduction to the history of the myth and ritual debate (with a focus on New Year festivals and initiation) in the first chapter, the second and third chapters discuss myth and ritual of reversal—Kronos and the Kronia, and Saturnus and the Saturnalia respectively; the fourth treats two women's festivals—that of Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria; the fifth investigates the initiatory aspects of Apollo and Mars. In the background is the basic conviction that the three approaches to religion known as 'substantivistic', functionalist and cultural-symbolic respectively, need not be mutually exclusive.

Book Cacus and Marsyas in Etrusco Roman Legend   PMAA 44   Volume 44

Download or read book Cacus and Marsyas in Etrusco Roman Legend PMAA 44 Volume 44 written by Jocelyn Penny Small and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how Greek and South Italian vase paintings of the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas became the model for Etruscan representations of Cacus ambushed by the Vibennae brothers, two Etruscan heroes of the sixth century B.C. The study demonstrates that the Etruscans knowingly adapted Greek iconographic forms to represent their own legends. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book The Classical Journal

Download or read book The Classical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Religious and Mythological Element in the First Book of Livy

Download or read book The Religious and Mythological Element in the First Book of Livy written by Joseph Clyde Murley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grande Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese Edizione Fatta Su Quella Di Livorno Ed Accresciuta Di Numerose Aggiunte E Correzioni Di Giuseppe Baretti

Download or read book Grande Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese Edizione Fatta Su Quella Di Livorno Ed Accresciuta Di Numerose Aggiunte E Correzioni Di Giuseppe Baretti written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ancient Roman Afterlife

Download or read book The Ancient Roman Afterlife written by Charles W. King and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society. In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives’ lives. But unlike the Greek hero-cult, the worship of dead emperors, or the Christian saints, the manes were incredibly inclusive—enrolling even those without social clout, such as women and the poor, among Rome’s deities. The Roman afterlife promised posthumous power in the world of the living. While the manes have often been glossed over in studies of Roman religion, this book brings their compelling story to the forefront, exploring their myriad forms and how their worship played out in the context of Roman religion’s daily practice. Exploring the place of the manes in Roman society, Charles King delves into Roman beliefs about their powers to sustain life and bring death to individuals or armies, examines the rituals the Romans performed to honor them, and reclaims the vital role the manes played in the ancient Roman afterlife. “King ranges widely across literary genres, law, epigraphy, and archaeology. He provides a thorough, rigorous, and well-documented study of an aspect of Roman religion and culture that, despite its importance, has so far not received due attention.” —James B. Rives, author of Religion in the Roman Empire “Groundbreaking . . . An invaluable resource for scholars of religion, funerary practice and afterlife in ancient Rome and more generally . . . King aims to use his model of variability in Roman belief to show the cult of the dead as inclusive of all Romans, living and deceased. Through extensive literary evidence and select cross-cultural comparisons, he largely succeeds. This stands to become a foundational text.” —Antiquity “King presents many attractive impressions of Roman society in his study . . . King’s major thesis—that Romans regarded their dead as gods, thought about them, communicated with them, attended to them, and intended to join them—is conclusively presented.” —Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Book The Classical Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abraham John Valpy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-02-28
  • ISBN : 1108057977
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book The Classical Journal written by Abraham John Valpy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This forty-volume collection comprises all the issues of an early and influential classical periodical, first published between 1810 and 1829.

Book Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles  Idea  Fidesa and Chloris

Download or read book Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Idea Fidesa and Chloris written by Michael Drayton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris" by Michael Drayton, Bartholomew Griffin, William active 1596 Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins

Download or read book From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins written by Ariadne Staples and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of women in Roman culture and society was a paradoxical one. On the one hand they enjoyed social, material and financial independence and on the other hand they were denied basic constitutional rights. Roman history is not short of powerful female figures, such as Agrippina and Livia, yet their power stemmed from their associations with great men and was not officially recognised. Ariadne Staples' book examines how women in Rome were perceived both by themselves and by men through women's participation in Roman religion, as Roman religious ritual provided the single public arena where women played a significant formal role. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins argues that the ritual roles played out by women were vital in defining them sexually and that these sexually defined categories spilled over into other aspects of Roman culture, including political activity. Ariadne Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions.

Book The Mythology of America s Seasonal Holidays

Download or read book The Mythology of America s Seasonal Holidays written by Arthur George and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year we celebrate a cycle of seasonal holidays. The ancient Greeks called this cycle “The Dance of the Horae,” after the mythical divinities who represented the seasons. What myths sit at the foundation of our own holiday celebrations? This interdisciplinary book explores the myths and symbols that underlie our major seasonal holidays and give them their meaning. Arthur George also shows how America’s own mythmaking has shaped some holidays. This mythological approach reveals how and why holidays arose in the first place, how and why they have changed over the centuries, why they have remained important, and finally how we can celebrate them today in a more meaningful manner that can enrich our lives and better our society. George devotes particular attention to the depth psychological aspects of holidays and their corresponding myths, as well as to the insights of modern biblical scholarship for key holidays such as Easter and Christmas.

Book Sophokleous Antigon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Sophokleous Antigon written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sophokleous Antiton

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  • Author : Sophocles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Sophokleous Antiton written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: