Author: David Bomgardner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134707398 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 293
Book Description
The Roman amphitheatre was a site both of bloody combat and marvellous spectacle, symbolic of the might of Empire; to understand the importance of the amphitheatre is to understand a key element in the social and political life of the Roman ruling classes. Generously illustrated with 141 plans and photographs, The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre offers a comprehensive picture of the origins, development, and eventual decline of the most typical and evocative of Roman monuments. With a detailed examination of the Colosseum, as well as case studies of significant sites from Italy, Gaul, Spain and Roman North Africa, the book is a fascinating gazetteer for the general reader as well as a valuable tool for students and academics.
Author: J. N. Adams Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108751636 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 772
Book Description
This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.
Author: Anna Leone Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191626007 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material form in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same value and meaning upon doing so. Addressing two main issues, mainly from an archaeological perspective, the volume explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues.
Author: Michael Greenhalgh Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004229272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 572
Book Description
Offering a multitude of examples through the centuries, this book examines how the architecture of the ancient world was transformed or destroyed under Byzantium and Islam, to produce new forms which often owed their materials and sometimes their styles to the past.
Author: Duthoy Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004293728 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 147
Book Description
Preliminary material /ROBERT DUTHOY -- INTRODUCTION /ROBERT DUTHOY -- THE INSCRIPTIONS /ROBERT DUTHOY -- THE LITERARY TEXTS /ROBERT DUTHOY -- THE NON-VERBAL TERMS /ROBERT DUTHOY -- THE VERB /ROBERT DUTHOY -- INTRODUCTION /ROBERT DUTHOY -- THE SUCCESSIVE PHASES OF THE TAUROBOLIUM /ROBERT DUTHOY -- AN EXPLANATION OF THE EVOLUTION /ROBERT DUTHOY -- THE ORIGIN OF THE TAUROBOLIUM /ROBERT DUTHOY -- CONCLUSION /ROBERT DUTHOY -- INDEX OF CORRESPONDING INSCRIPTIONS /ROBERT DUTHOY.
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