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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Celliniby Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington SymondsISBN 0394605284 (0-394-60528-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Bathing in Public in the Roman Worldby Garrett G. FaganISBN 0472088653 (0-472-08865-3)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Beacon at Alexandriaby Gillian BradshawISBN 0395411599 (0-395-41159-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beacon at Alexandria'Book summary:"When Charis learns that her father has betrothed her to the hated Roman governor Festinus, she enlists the aid of her brother and flees to Alexandria. There, disguised as a eunuch, she begins to study Hippocratic medicine under the tutelage of a patient Jewish physician. The young woman excels as a healer and her fame spreads. Political intrigues force her to frontier outposts of the Roman Empire where she practices as an army doctor. She succeeds in maintaining her disguise until she is captured and held prisoner by the Goths during their uprising against the Romans. Bradshaw has superbly re-created the political, social, and intellectual climate of the 4th century A.D. and the attitudes towards woman and medicine in this excellent work for most public libraries."--from Library Journal. [via]
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Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic Warby Gregory DalyISBN 0415327431 (0-415-32743-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Care of the Self the History of Sexuality'Book summary:The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. [via]
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0440204399 (0-440-20439-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]More editions of Catch-22:
The Civilization of Romeby Donald R. DudleyISBN 0452010160 (0-452-01016-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empireby Michael GrantISBN 041517323X (0-415-17323-X)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Complete Illustrated Shakespeareby John GilbertISBN 0405124104 (0-405-12410-4)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0385000499 (0-385-00049-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Cymbelineby William ShakespeareISBN 041502689X (0-415-02689-X)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cymbeline'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most perplexing and unclassifiable late plays, Cymbeline is often labelled a "Romance", due to its themes of pastoralism, exile and familial reconciliation which critics notice recur throughout Shakespeare's last plays, from Pericles to The Tempest. Set in ancient Roman Britain at the court of the British king Cymbeline, the main action of the play revolves around the relationship between Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, and Posthumous Leonatus. Attempting to marry Imogen off to Cloten, the grotesque son of Cymbeline's second wife, the king banishes Posthumous in a rage when he discovers he has secretly married Imogen. As the personal relationships in the play deteriorate, on the public stage Rome prepares to invade Britain due to Cymbeline's failure to pay tribute to his imperial master. As the play builds to its militaristic climax, Posthumous returns to Britain, where he eventually contrives a reunion with Imogen and Cymbeline's long-lost sons, who unite in their attempt to resist the might of Rome.
The ending of the play, with its series of mystical riddles, unlikely coincidences and extraordinary reunions has baffled critics for centuries. Some read it as a heavy-handed political allegory of Jacobean national union under the new sovereign of the time, King James I, whilst others see in it Shakespeare pushing theatrical realism to its furthermost limits, with its decapitated bodies, complex staging and unlikely mistaken identities. Cymbeline remains a puzzling, enigmatic play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Death and Restorationby Iain PearsISBN 0425190420 (0-425-19042-0)
Softcover, Prime Crime
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0460004743 (0-460-00474-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Discourses of Epictetusby Epictetus, Christopher Gill, Robin HardISBN 0460873121 (0-460-87312-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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Dreaming the Bullby Manda ScottISBN 0385336713 (0-385-33671-3)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Dreaming The Houndby Manda ScottISBN 0385337744 (0-385-33774-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreaming The Hound'Book summary:In a spellbinding novel of gods and men, myth and brutality, acclaimed author Manda Scott returns to her heralded saga of a world under siege. For here is the epic tale of Boudica, the legendary Celtic queen, and her embattled Eceni tribea bold new work of imaginative fiction that takes us on a thrilling journey into a clash between magic and mankind.
To the Eceni tribe of Britannia, nature is the ultimate god, and warriors are joined in battle by the voices and spirits of their ancestors. But the proud Eceni are running out of time. Neros army, long since out of patience with Britannias wild tribes, is becoming increasingly oppressive. And Boudicas family is at the center of a gathering storm: Cunomar, Boudicas son, who longs for the mettle to kill as fiercely as his mother& Graine, her young daughter, gifted with the power of dreamers, scarred forever by the horrors of war...and Boudicas brother, born Bán of the Eceni, turned the traitor Valeriusa man caught between worlds: warrior and dreamer, Roman and Eceni.
As conflict erupts between the tribes and their brutal invaders, Boudica is forced to make a bold sacrifice. Cloaking her identity, she will travel directly into the stronghold of an enemy who longs for her crucifixion. What happens nextin a brutal drama of betrayal, heroism, and sacrificewill leave Boudica with no options but one: to raise and arm every warrior, every dreamer, every tribe&and push the invader and its legions back into the sea.
From the thundering hooves of the Ecenis great horses to mystical spirit quests of young warriors, from the politics of an empire to the passions of lovers, Dreaming the Hound takes us on a breathtaking journey of the imaginationat once brutal, fantastical, and utterly unforgettable.
MAGNIFICENT PRAISE FOR MANDA SCOTTS BOUDICA SAGA
Dreaming the Hound
Extraordinary. Independent, UK
Brilliantly imaginative. Colchester Evening Gazette, UK
Dramatic&Vivid&Lyrical. Yorkshire Evening Post, UK
One of Britains most famous legends&is retold here with extraordinary immediacy. Our Time, UK
Irresistible&an excellent read. Diva, UK
Dreaming the Bull
Enthralling&Mesmerising&Creates a living past of battle feats, betrayals, heart-breaking loyalties and cruelties. Publishing News, UK
Thrilling&Readers will be swept away. Booklist, starred review
Dreaming the Eagle
A powerful novel about one of the most intriguing and mysterious women in history&Alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity. Read it and enjoy! Jean M. Auel
The new Mary Renault&Intensely exciting, a tale of passion, courage and heroism against huge odds. Publishing News, UK
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Eagle and the Ravenby Pauline GedgeISBN 0385270380 (0-385-27038-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eagle and the Raven'Book summary:Pauline Gedge, the award-winning Alberta writer known primarily for her novels set in ancient Egypt, such as Child of the Morning and Stargate, has also essayed the field of British history, as in this early work The Eagle and the Raven, originally issued in 1978. The blurb tells us that the subject of this novel is Boudicca, queen of the Iceni tribe who led a famous revolt against the Roman occupation of Britain in the middle of the first century. Despite its assurance that her "passion and pride lit up the mysterious world of the Celts," the famous queen only features sporadically in the first three-quarters of this 900-page door-stopper. But lest the reader feel cheated, we have the mystery of the Celts in spades, embodied in the sprawling saga of the great resistance leader Caradoc (a.k.a. Caractacus), who is finally betrayed to the Romans by a discarded lover. There are lush and misty landscapes, druids lurking in the shadows, and much singing and drinking of mead. While there are some fine evocations of the British landscape, and the characters are more convincing than those in Gedge's Egyptian sagas, embarrassingly purple passages abound: "Spring came to Aricia like a jaded old whore, draped in false beauty to hide rampant decay." Do the ancient Celts (as has been suggested) merely provide a convenient ethnic identity for white people, or does their dream of freedom and paradise represent the plight of all oppressed peoples? But freedom is more than dream; it is about real social and economic self-determination, not pretty fables set in the misty hills of Albion. --Robyn Gillam [via]
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The Food Of Loveby Anthony CapellaISBN 0452286557 (0-452-28655-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Food Of Love'Book summary:Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus, decides there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young -- and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except, unbeknownst to Laura, Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at Templi -- it's his shy friend Bruno who is the chef. But Tomasso is the one who knows how to get the girls, and when Laura comes to dinner he persuades Bruno to help him with the charade. It works: the meal is a sensual feast, Laura is utterly seduced and Tomasso falls in lust. But it is Bruno, the real chef who has secretly prepared every dish Laura has eaten, who falls deeply and unrequitedly in love. A delicious tale of Cyrano de Bergerac-style culinary seduction, but with sensual recipes instead of love poems. [via]
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Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connectionsby Charles R. PellegrinoISBN 0380973103 (0-380-97310-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Giotto's Handby Iain PearsISBN 0425173585 (0-425-17358-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Hadrian the Seventhby Frederick William RolfeISBN 048622323X (0-486-22323-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Hannibal and the Enemies of Romeby Peter ConnollyISBN 0382063074 (0-382-06307-4)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr
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Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentariesby Herodotus, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert RobertsISBN 0393959465 (0-393-95946-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition offers an introduction to Herodotus for students approaching the history of Western Civilization or classical Greece for the first time. It features a new translation and selection of Herodotuss The Histories by Walter Blanco, supplemented by critical works chosen by Jennifer Roberts.
Walter Blanco's translation manages both to remain true to the spirit and letter of the original Greek and to be readily understandable to American students.
The selections from The Histories show Herodotus as ethnographer and as narrative historian, including his rich descriptions of Egyptian civilization and its contributions to Greek culture and his dramatic account of the Persian wars
"Backgrounds and Commentaries" provide students with a context for understanding Herodotuss place at the genesis of the historical narrative tradition. Great classical accounts by Aeschylus, Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plutarch serve as comparative pieces in early historical narrative while critical commentaries by modern scholarsincluding Hume, Mill, Macaulay, Collingwood, Momigliano, Ferrill, and othersengage students in the debate over Herodotuss historical authority.
A master Map, Chronology of Events, Glossary of names, places, and terms, and explanatory footnotes facilitate the students understanding of this work. A Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via]More editions of Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries:
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The Historiesby Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Rosalind ThomasISBN 0375400613 (0-375-40061-3)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Since the release of the film version of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, there has been renewed interest in the Histories of Herodotus--the book the dying patient treasures so much.
The writings of Herodotus are the ground zero of Western history. He lived during the fifth century B.C.E, and his Histories chronicle the events of the Persian Wars, which were within living memory when he wrote. He was the first writer to examine real, rather than mythical history, and although his work lacks the rigor of later histories, it has a breathtaking scope. Herodotus is a wonderful storyteller, and in recalling the wars with Persian invaders, he ranges across the ancient world, mixing politics with natural history and anthropology. These are traveler's tales, and a great deal of their appeal to a modern audience lies in the way Herodotus describes the cultures that influence his story. The societies of Scythians, Arabs, and Egyptians are depicted in detail, from their political structures to their dining habits. Herodotus created a sense of history for his people, and he gives us a picture of a distant past that reminds us of the vast continuum of civilization. [via]
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Historiesby Hugh Bowden, George RawlinsonISBN 0460871706 (0-460-87170-6)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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A History of Rome Under the Emperorsby Theodor Mommsen, Alexander Demandt, Thomas E. J. Wiedemann, Barbara Demandt, Clare KrojzlISBN 0415206472 (0-415-20647-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinianby John B. BuryISBN 0486203980 (0-486-20398-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian'Book summary:[via]Volume 2 of classic history. One of the world's foremost historians chronicles the major forces and events in the history of the Western and Byzantine Empires from the death of Theodosius (A.D. 395) to the death of Justinian (A.D. 565). "An important and valuable contribution to our knowledge." Classical Review.More editions of History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian:
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Horace's Satires and Epistlesby Quintus Horatius FlaccusISBN 0393090930 (0-393-09093-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horace's Satires and Epistles'Book summary:Horace today is perhaps best remembered as the lyric poet of the Odes, as consequently as the inventor of the form named the Horatian Ode after him. But his achievement is more various than the Odes and Epodes suggest.
Early in his life, and again in maturity, Horace sought to turn his poetic skills to the uses of moral and aesthetic discussion in the series of didactic works translated here. In the Satires, Horace adopts one persona after another, each of which reduces himself to absurdity in the process of trying to argue a point of view about the ethical or artistic life. The form of the Epistles permits Horace to write with particular intimacy, addressing moral issues in a persuasive yet informal way. The third epistle, The Art of Poetry, on the other hand, is a formal poem addressed to the emperor Augustus, and seeks to educate the poetic taste of the ruler of the western world. Jacob Fuchs is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Hayward. He is the editor of Virgil: The Aeneid (Pengiun Classics, 1991), and author of Reading Horace (Edinburgh UP, 1967), The Imagery and Poetry of Lucretius (Edinburgh UP, 1969, reprint Bristol CP, 1994). [via]More editions of Horace's Satires and Epistles:
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europeby Thomas CahillISBN 0385418493 (0-385-41849-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe'Book summary:In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and scholars," the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the West's written treasury. When stability returned in Europe, these Irish scholars were instrumental in spreading learning, becoming not only the conservators of civilization, but also the shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western culture. [via]
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The Imperial Roman Armyby Yann Le BohecISBN 0415222958 (0-415-22295-8)
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In Search of a Homeland : The Story of the Aeneidby Penelope Lively, Ian AndrewISBN 0385729375 (0-385-72937-5)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims Progressby Mark TwainISBN 0451525027 (0-451-52502-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims Progress'Book summary:Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. WE were at sea now, for a very long voyage -- we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic -- a voyage of several weeks. We naturally settled down into a very slow, stay-at-home manner of life, and resolved to be quiet, exemplary people, and roam no more for twenty or thirty days. No more, at least, than from stem to stern of the ship. It was a very comfortable prospect, though, for we were tired and needed a long rest. We were all lazy and satisfied, now, as the meager entries in my note-book (that sure index, to me, of my condition) prove. What a stupid thing a notebook gets to be at sea, any way. Please observe the style: '" Sunday--Services, as usual, at four bells. Services at night, also. No cards. "Monday--Beautiful day, but rained hard. The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. Or else fattened. The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. Also here and there all over their backs. It is well they are not cows-- it would soak in and ruin the milk. The poor devil eagle* from Syria * Afterwards presented to the Central Park. looks miserable and droopy in the rain perched on the forward capstan. He appears to have his own opinion of a sea voyage, and if it were put into language and the language solidified, it would probably essentially dam the widest river in the world. "Tuesday--Somewhere in the neighborhood of the island of Malta. Can not stop there. Cholera. Weather very stormy. Many passengers seasick and invisible. "Wednesday--Weather still very savage. Storm blew two land birds to sea, and they came on board. A hawk was blown off, also. He circled round and round the shi... [via]
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Invasion of Europe by the Barbariansby J. B. BuryISBN 0393003884 (0-393-00388-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Italian Daysby Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonISBN 0395551315 (0-395-55131-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian Days'Book summary:This book is a journey down the Italian peninsula that will make even the most experienced traveler relive its splendor anew. Harrison offers a fascinating mixture of Italian history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, art, and literature. [via]
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The Last Judgementby Iain PearsISBN 0425171485 (0-425-17148-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Late Roman Armyby Pat SouthernISBN 0415222966 (0-415-22296-6)
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Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and Its Peopleby Alan K. BowmanISBN 0415920256 (0-415-92025-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and Its People'Book summary:Over three hundred letters and documents have recently been discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, written on wooden tablets which have amazingly survived nearly 2000 years. Painstakingly deciphered by Alan Bowman and J. David Thomas, they have contributed a wealth of evidence for daily life in the Roman Empire. From the military documents we learn of the strength and activities of the units stationed at Vindolanda. The accounts testify to the lifestyle of officers and ordinary soldiers, with payments for pepper and oil, towels and tallow, boots and beer. Then there are snapshots of domestic life in letters between the officers' wives, including a birthday invitation (see front cover). Most fascinating of all is the evidence for a high level of literacy in the Roman army, where even someone of humble rank receives a letter from home promising him a parcel of socks. [via]
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Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empireby D. J. Mattingly, D. S. PotterISBN 0472085689 (0-472-08568-9)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Lost Paintingby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375759867 (0-375-75986-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpieceby Jonathan HarrISBN 0375431535 (0-375-43153-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Painting : The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece'Book summary:In 1992 a young art student uncovered a clue in an obscure Italian archive that led to the discovery of Caravaggio's original The Taking of the Christ, a painting that had been presumed lost for over 200 years. How this clue--a single entry in an old listing of family possessions--led to a residence in Ireland and the subsequent restoration of this Italian Baroque masterpiece is the subject of this brisk and enthralling detective story. The Lost Painting reads more like a historical novel than art history, as Harr smoothly weaves several narratives together to bring the story alive. Though he does not provide an in-depth examination of the painting itself--the book is not aimed specifically at art experts--Harr does include many details for lay readers about restoration, the various methods used to track artwork through history, how originals are distinguished from copies, and an inside view of the art world, past and present. He also discusses various forensic approaches, including X ray, infrared reflectography, chemical analysis of the paints and canvas, and other modern techniques. But most of the book is focused on more primitive methods, including dogged research through dusty archives and meticulous attention to detail.
This entertaining book boasts an engaging cast of characters, all of whom are inflicted with the "Caravaggio disease," including some of the foremost Caravaggio scholars in the world, persistent students, obsessive restorers, and most of all, the artist himself. Mercurial, supremely gifted, and prone to violence, Caravaggio lived like an outlaw and a pauper most of his troubled life. Yet even when he attained wealth and fame--and briefly, respectability--he was still hounded by the law (for murder) and numerous vengeful enemies. Harr does an admirable job of bringing the man alive in these pages while keeping his long-lost painting at the center of the action. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealot's Last Standby Yigael YadinISBN 0394435427 (0-394-43542-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italyby Paul MacKendrickISBN 0393301192 (0-393-30119-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europeby Thomas CahillISBN 0385495552 (0-385-49555-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe'Book summary:After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.
By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their lives, medieval people exalted womanhood to a level unknown in any previous society. For the first time, men began to treat women with dignity and women took up professions that had always been closed to them.
The communion bread, believed to be the body of Jesus, encouraged the formulation of new questions in philosophy: Could reality be so fluid that one substance could be transformed into another? Could ordinary bread become a holy reality? Could mud become gold, as the alchemists believed? These new questions pushed the minds of medieval thinkers toward what would become modern science.
Artists began to ask themselves similar questions. How can we depict human anatomy so that it looks real to the viewer? How can we depict motion in a composition that never moves? How can two dimensions appear to be three? Medieval artists (and writers, too) invented the Western tradition of realism.
On visits to the great cities of Europemonumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable Florence of Dante and GiottoCahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world. Bursting with stunning four-color art, MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES is the ultimate Christmas gift book. [via]More editions of Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe:
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The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Editionby William Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine E. MausISBN 0393041077 (0-393-04107-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Odes of Horaceby David Ferry, Quintus Horatius FlacusISBN 0374525722 (0-374-52572-2)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odes of Horace'Book summary:David Ferry's The Odes of Horace represents the first truly distinguished translation of the complete odes into the American idiom. The translator has managed to retain the poet's moral tone while purging any taint of sententiousness. How? By recasting the structure of "Carpe Diem," for example, he gives this familiar poem a power one would have not thought possible. Ferry even manages a Latin-English rhyme at the end, by shifting the position of the addressee's name: "Leuconoe-- / Hold on to the day."
Ferry's Horace is always a specific personality, with his own identity, background, and attitude. Yet he is also a conduit of history. Turning to "Delicta maiorum immeritus lues..." (which Ferry straightforwardly calls "To the Romans"), we are plunged into a devastating meditation on the imperium. At this point, of course, it's commonplace to point out similarities between the American empire and that of ancient Rome. But this translation gives us a feeling for just how contemporary Horace really is. The best example would probably be "To Dellius":
Dellius, don't be
It helps to know that the historical Dellius was exiled in Egypt at the time, making those Italian vintages strictly off-limits to him. What's more, he was a double or perhaps triple agent, which gives him an additional Cold War coloration. In any case, the allusiveness of the odes--and the taut, bone-dry English of Ferry's translation--should gain Horace a legion or so of new readers. --Mark Rudman [via]
Too unrestrainedly joyful in good fortune.
You are going to die.
It doesn't matter at all whether you spend
Your days and nights in sorrow,
Or, on the other hand, in holiday pleasure.
Drinking Falernian wine
Of an excellent vintage year, on the river bank.
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The Odes of Horaceby Horace, David FerryISBN 0374224250 (0-374-22425-0)
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Outcastby Rosemary Sutcliff, Richard KennedyISBN 0374456739 (0-374-45673-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Persian Warsby George RawlinsonISBN 0394309545 (0-394-30954-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema, and Historyby Maria WykeISBN 0415906148 (0-415-90614-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Raphael Affairby Iain PearsISBN 0425166139 (0-425-16613-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Riverside Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, Heather Dubrow, Charles H. Shattuck, William T. Liston, Frank Kermode, Hallett Smith, Anne Barton, Harry Levin, Herschel Baker, Marie Edel, Joseph Jay TobinISBN 0395754909 (0-395-75490-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riverside Shakespeare'Book summary:After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes, bound in full cloth, in a handsome, four-color slipcase. The new, revised version of The Riverside Shakespeare retains all the features that made the first edition so popular - the invaluable notes, the wide-ranging introduction, and the brilliant critical prefaces to the individual works. Additions include the history play Edward IIIand the poem "A Funeral Elegy," both recently claimed for Shakespeare by computer-aided textual analysis. The original appendices have been updated and expanded and are joined by two new essays, "Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism" and "Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1970," the latter accompanied by eight pages of full-color photographs. [via]
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The Roman Army, 31 Bc-Ad 337: A Sourcebookby Brian CampbellISBN 0415071739 (0-415-07173-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D.by Graham WebsterISBN 0389205907 (0-389-20590-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Roman Political Ideas and Practiceby Frank Ezra AdcockISBN 0472060880 (0-472-06088-0)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustusby R.M. OgilvieISBN 0393005437 (0-393-00543-7)
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Rome against Caratacus: The Roman Campaigns in Britain, AD 48-58by Graham WebsterISBN 0389201170 (0-389-20117-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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Rome in the Age of Bernini: From the Election of Innocent X to the Death of Innocent XIby Torgil MagnusonISBN 0391034480 (0-391-03448-0)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Rome in the Age of Bernini: From the Election of Sixtus V to the Death of Urban VIIIby Torgil MagnusonISBN 0391025864 (0-391-02586-4)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Rome That Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the Fifth Centuryby Stephen Williams, Gerard FriellISBN 0415154030 (0-415-15403-0)
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Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Romeby Leonard BarkanISBN 0374254052 (0-374-25405-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Seventh Sinnerby Elizabeth Peters, Barbara MertzISBN 0445407786 (0-445-40778-6)
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Shroud for the Archbishopby Peter TremayneISBN 0451193008 (0-451-19300-8)
Softcover, Signet
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Spectacles of Death in Ancient Romeby Donald G. KyleISBN 0415096782 (0-415-09678-2)
Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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Street of Five Moonsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0380731215 (0-380-73121-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Then and Nowby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0405078226 (0-405-07822-6)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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The Titian Committeeby Iain PearsISBN 0425168956 (0-425-16895-6)
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The Vaudevillesby Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ann DunniganISBN 0451522702 (0-451-52270-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Villa of Mysteriesby David HewsonISBN 0440242371 (0-440-24237-1)
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Who's Who in the Roman Worldby John HazelISBN 0415291623 (0-415-29162-3)
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Works: William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, William G. Clark, William Aldis WrightISBN 0404059503 (0-404-05950-3)
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Odes : With the Latin Textby Horace, James Michie, Gregson DavisISBN 0375759026 (0-375-75902-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odes : With the Latin Text'Book summary:Timeless meditations on the subjects of wine, parties, birthdays, love, and friendship, Horaces Odes, in the words of classicist Donald Carne-Ross, make the commonplace notable, even luminous. This edition reproduces the highly lauded translation by James Michie. For almost forty years, poet and literary critic John Hollander notes, James Michies brilliant translations of Horace have remained fresh as well as strong, and responsive to the varying lights and darks of the originals. It is a pleasure to have them newly available. [via]
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