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Finding Ancient Rome
Second edition, updated March 2023 Ancient Rome is still with us, more than ever. Every year, with new metro lines, roadworks, digs, restorations and repairs, new discoveries are made and old errors corrected – and new questions raised. This electronic book is intended as both a walking guide to ancient Rome and a resource for the city and the people who left their mark on history. Each of the eight excursions illustrates an aspect of the city from the foundation to the fall, and in passing explains the bits of modern Rome whose roots lie in that distant past. These walks are not meant to be a tourist guide of the "Rome in 3 days" style nor a nutshell guide to the well-documented and overrun sites such as the Colosseum and the Forum. Instead, they lead through the city itself, along paths that have been trod for thousands of years.
Palestrina
The heart of this ancient city, hidden during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, came fully to light after it was bombed in World War II. Today Praeneste, known in modern times as Palestrina, is a fascinating mix of classical, medieval, and Renaissance streets, sites, and buildings, dominated by its 4th-century BC fortifications and above all by the 2nd-century BC sanctuary of Fortune. The two walks in this electronic book cover the city and its acropolis, touching on its legendary foundation by gods and Greeks, its innovations in classical architecture, its golden age and finally its demise as Rome grew powerful. Along the path, the legacy of the Colonna and the Barberini families serves to illustrate its troubled and violent history after the fall of the Empire.
The Allied Bombing of Central Italy
The Allied Bombing of Central Italy examines the results of the Second World War Allied bombing campaign on Palestrina and Rome, Italy, and the long-term impact of the war on the mountainside town and on the Barberini family's art collection including the Nile Mosaic. It explores the history and cultural significance of Palestrina, its strategic setting, the recovery of the town, the restoration of the Nile Mosaic, which remains the largest Egyptian-style mosaic extant. A unique aspect of the destruction was that it uncovered a pagan temple, the Sanctuary of Fortuna. The bombing destroyed the homes built on its terraces but revealed the ancient structure buried beneath which had remained uns...
Gaius Marius
“Shows Marius the man, warts and all . . . an excellent biography . . . a very good breakdown of Roman politics, and a civics course in ancient Rome.”— A Wargamers Needful Things Gaius Marius was one of the most remarkable and significant figures of the late Roman Republic. At a time when power tended to be restricted to a clique of influential families, he rose from relatively humble origins to attain the top office of consul. He even went on to hold the post an unprecedented seven times. His political career flourished but was primarily built on military success. First serving in the Numantine War in Spain, he later rose to high command and brought a long-running war in North Africa ...
Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities
This book explores the ways Robert Smithson’s art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge. In this way, his art is conceived as a true fiction that eradicates a false reality. By tracing the web of correspondences between Smithson and science fictional, speculative and mystical modes of thought, Rory O’Dea explores the aesthetic encounters engendered by his art as a means to warp the contours of reality and loosen the boundaries of being human. Given the current and impending catastrophes of the Anthropocene, which represents the ever-expanding planetary shadow cast by humanism, the possibility of being other-than-human posited by Smithson’s art is a matter of urgent concern. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, American studies and environmental humanities.
Inventing the World
An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. But Venice is far from a historic relic or a life-sized museum. It is a living city that still embraces its innovative roots. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural history to inspire a new generation of innovators.
처음부터 다시 배우는 서양고대사
이야기꾼 정기문 교수가 들려주는 서양고대사의 장구한 흐름 그리스 신화와 철학, 기독교, 법의 통치는 서양은 물론 우리 생활 속에도 깊이 스며들어 있다. 전공자는 물론이고 일반 독자나 학생이 서양고대사를 알아야 하는 이유다. 이 책은 30여 년간 서양고대사와 기독교의 역사를 탐구하는 데 힘을 쏟아온 정기문 교수가 서양의 고대를 포괄적이고 종합적으로 다룬 개론서다. 이 책은 크게 세 가지에 중점을 두었다. 우선 고대 그리스 이전, 메소포타미아·이집트 문명의 출범부터 주요하게 다룸으로써 진정한 서양 문명의 원류...
Las reliquias y sus usos
Estas V Jornadas internacionales de estudio e innovación sobre “Las reliquias y sus cultos”, auspiciadas por el Proyecto PIIDUZ_3_214 de la Universidad de Zaragoza, son un foro de encuentro, intercambio de ideas y discusión formado por investigadores, docentes y egresados de las diferentes áreas de saber que componen las titulaciones de Humanidades. En esta ocasión están dedicadas concretamente a Las reliquias y sus usos: de lo terapéutico a lo taumatúrgico donde se tratan fenómenos culturales relacionados necesariamente con la fe y la devoción, pero sobre todo con el empleo de las reliquias como instrumento práctico con el que tratar de resolver algunas necesidades del creyente con todo lo que ello implica, incluyendo su aproximación al mundo mágico. Este año dedicamos la portada y contraportada del volumen al Santo Grial de Valencia, a propósito de un estudio interdisciplinar donde han cabido también los análisis científicos, en contraste con la información que proporciona la propia pieza como objeto y materia.
Land Art
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Land Art in the U.S.A.
A study of contemporary art, looking at all of the major artists in America.
