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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"ancient Rome"”.
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Forms of Spectrality in Ancient Rome
… to do with the question of whether or not the ancients were truly convinced that ghosts exist. While not discounting the importance of belief, I am interested rather in how modalities of belief (or unbelief) developed within a prescribed framework of possibilities--particularly with regard to …
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Protection Epitaphs: Material Connection Between Death and Magic in Ancient Rome
… of these epitaphs, are a subculture within ancient Rome that incorporate a request for protection. These epitaphs share a common thread of death culture: care and respect for the dead. Rituals are cultural practices that follow a set protocol, with roles assigned to the practitioner and …
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Assuming the purple: the rehabilitation of ancient Rome in Victorian culture, 1837-1901
This thesis argues that ancient Rome was rehabilitated in English culture during the mid-Victorian period, following a period of effective displacement that began during the late eighteenth century. Devalued through its appropriation by revolutionary polities on both sides of the Atlantic, Rome’s …
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Piranesi's Campo Marzio plan : the palimpsest of interpretive memory
… reconstruction of the Campo Mania area of Ancient Rome. This plan was issued in 1762, but as the structures in the plan appear non-Roman and without apparent historical evidence, this work is termed non archaeological. Piranesi's polemical activities in the pan-Grecian debate between …
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Cum Laude
Cum Laude is a draft of a novel set in Ancient Rome, in which two young men fall in love.
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What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece
… that began in the various city-states of Ancient Greece? This piece is made in attempt to answer this question. The scope of these sources will start with the beginning of the Western Philosophical Tradition, with Thales of Miletus and the Milesian, all the way up to, but not including, …
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Reflections in Stone: Four Venetian Villas of Andrea Palladio as Expressions of Sixteenth Century Venetian Political History
… aligning itself with the authority of ancient Rome, Venice extolled the inner strength and accord of its political structure. This study looks at four Venetian villas built by Andrea Palladio: Villa Barbara, Villa Emo, Villa Cornaro, and Villa Foscari. Although each villa is a unique …
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Masculinity and Politics in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Dramatic Works
… Lohenstein's dramas the representatives of ancient Rome, the legitimate predecessors to the ruling Habsburgs, experience a decline in masculine-coded virtue while Rome's opposition--primarily female characters--experience an increase in this very virtue. These strong female figures present …
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THE EMPRESS OF ROME & OTHER STORIES THAT MAKE ME POSSIBLE
<p><em>The Empress of Rome & Other Stories That Make Me Possible</em> is a collection of essays, micro memoirs, poetry, art, meditations, reflections, speculations, imagined history, hopes, and desires. Without straying too far from her own life, Zoa Coudret shows readers glimpses into other …
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China in Africa. An assessment of China's role in developing infrastructure and providing aid to development projects. An imperialist model of governance? Or is China redefining the way we assess international relations?
… in the classical sense (such as existed in ancient Rome, China, and Greece). In more recent times, imperialism has become synonymous with western hegemony in Africa and Asia from the 18th through the 20th centuries and with the spreading cultural influence of the United States" (Webster …
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Baseline determination : an examination with special reference to the low-water mark
… 200 years ago and further back in the era of ancient Rome, the LWM was held to be of no consequence. According to Roman law the air, running water, the sea and the sea-shore may be mentioned as examples of "things" being common to all (res commune). 2 That means that the sea was a "thing" …
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Alcohol and alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The sun also rises’
… the San Fermin festival to the Bacchanalia of Ancient Rome. This will show how drastically alcohol increases, losing the religious aspects of the festival and becoming a seven-day binge. The second chapter will present the idea that alcohol is not only restricted within the festival, and will …
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The Orphic voice in Garcilaso de la Vega, Quevedo and Bocangel
… The "new poets" of the Renaissance found in ancient Rome exemplary models essential to the formulation of their modem poetics. However, the Spanish poets’ rediscovery and re-casting of the ancients was firmly rooted in an awareness not only of the contingency of their own period, but in a …
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The Power of Images in the Age of Mussolini
… commemorative stamps and medallions focused on ancient Rome. In the same year, Mussolini inaugurated an impressive square named Forum Imperii, situated within the Foro Mussolini - known today as the Foro Italico, in celebration of the first anniversary of his Ethiopian conquest. The Forum …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
… urban conflagration had a powerful hold on the ancient Roman literary imagination. This phenomenon represents a unique confluence between literary tradition and urban reality: Greco-Roman literature offers a wide array of poetic, philosophical and historiographic reflections of cities destroyed …
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Grammatical Gender and Transformation in Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
… World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome has recently shown. This connection is driven by a process Corbeill calls “heterosexualisation”: the determination – which accelerated in the Augustan period – to divide the world into two fixed categories of binary gender, both in …
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Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14th Centuries
… the Middle Ages was an amalgamation of that of Ancient Rome and the Germanic tribes, its origins in Denmark is sought in the interactions between the Danish territory and the Roman Empire. Elites in Denmark sought to emulate Roman culture as a marker of status, with pan-European elite networks …
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Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus
… surrounding sexual crime and its punishment in ancient Rome. In 8.3 the tales of three women who give speeches in public raise issues about the relationship of oratory to Roman conceptions of "masculine" and "feminine". These sections explore the work's differentiation of the sexes through …
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