Author: Robert WoodPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879583104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart
Author: Robert WoodPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879583104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Ruins of Palmyra
Author: Robert WoodPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282552619
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Excerpt from The Ruins of Palmyra: Otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart The pretence he made ufe of, to give fuch conduel: a colour of jultice, was that they did not obferve a juf't neutrality between the Romans and Parthians; but Appian b fays his real motive was to enrich his troops with the plunder of the Palmyrenes, who were merchants, and fold the commodities of India and Arabia to the Romans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmor in the Desert
Author: The Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmor in the Desert
Author: Robin WoodThe Ruins of Palmyra
Author: Robert WoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9781350159877
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Wood's Palmyra and Balbec were first printed in 1753 and 1757, respectively, in simultaneous English and French editions. (For the circumstances of publication, see the Introduction below.) Both were republished in a single volume in 1827 (London: William Pickering); and reprinted in separate volumes in 1971 (Westmead: Gregg International). No manuscript of the texts is known to survive, but Borra's drawings for the plates are preserved in the collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects (see, e.g., Figure 7 in the Introduction below). The present text is based on the original English editions of 1753 and 1757. Orthography and capitalization have been modernised, punctuation has not. Toponyms and names of historical figures have been modified to reflect current English usage. Wood's references to other authors, ancient and modern, are highly abbreviated, and are here reprinted as found. However, passages directly quoted from ancient authors have been updated by reference to more recent editions: the Loebs for Diodorus Siculus, the Historia Augusta, Pliny, and Strabo; Dindorf (1832) for the Chronicon Paschale; Mommsen (1868) for the Digest; Rougé (1966) for the Expositio totius mundi et gentium; Lightfoot (2003) for Lucian's On the Syrian Goddess; Willis (1994) for Macrobius; and Thurn (2000) for Malalas. Citations, by book and chapter when appropriate, have been supplied {in braces}. Internal cross-references have been updated to reflect the pagination of the present volumes. References in the Introduction give the pagination, first of the original editions, then of the present volumes."--
RUINS OF PALMYRA
Author: ROBERT. WOODPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033454763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor in the desert
Author: Robert WoodThe Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmor in the Desert
Author: Robin WoodThe Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmer in the Desert
Author: Robert WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions, Aramaic
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Urban Revelations
Author: Donald J. McNuttPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000947718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This study reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as a site of instability and cultural impermanence. While highlighting the transatlantic currency of ruin imagery, the study demonstrates through interdisciplinary analyses of architecture and material culture how American images of ruin intersect with the symbolic geographies of city and home to shape and reflect citizenship, law, and perceptions of race. Arguing that ruin imagery works to disclose the culture's inner dimensions, the study incorporates deep archival research and synthesizes theories on geography and architecture to read unstable settings in the works of Philip Freneau, Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, and Melville. The study focuses on the ways these writers relied on ruin imagery to interpret such subjects as Anglo-Indian relations in the nation's early capital; the dialogue between secrecy and yellow fever in 1790s Philadelphia; the impact of antebellum penitentiaries on conceptions of mind and domestic space; and the mutability of nationhood in the decade just before the Civil War. The book provides dynamic ways of reading the relationships among urban culture, ruin, concepts of instability, and the formation of American literature.