Hadrian

Author: Thorsten Opper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674030954
Category : Emperors
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
"Hadrian, a Roman emperor, the builder of Hadrian's Wall in the north of England, a restless and ambitious man who was interested in architecture and was passionate about Greece and Greek culture. Is this the common image today of the ruler of one of the greatest powers of the ancient world?" "Published to complement a major exhibition at the British Museum, this wide-ranging book rediscovers Hadrian. The sharp contradictions in his personality are examined, previous concepts are questioned and myths that surround him are exploded." --Book Jacket.

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

Author: Anthony Everitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178185209X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 550

Book Description
Born and bred in what is now northern Spain to a family of olive-oil magnates, Hadrian was lucky enough to benefit from the patronage of his maternal cousin, Trajan, who would later become emperor, and who named Hadrian his successor on his death in AD 117. After suppressing the Jewish revolt that had started under Trajan (memorably depicted in Josephus' Jewish War), Hadrian brought years of turbulence to an end. He presided over Rome's expansion to its greatest extent, travelling all over his empire to fortify its borders and, notably, building a wall to demarcate its northern extreme in the island of Britain (as well as another in Germany). Hadrian also 'Hellenized' the cultural life of the empire, and left an extraordinary legacy, yet he remains one of the least-known of Rome's emperors. Using exhaustive research, Anthony Everitt unveils the private life and character of this most successful of emperors, in the most vivid and exciting retelling of his story to date.

That Mighty Sculptor, Time

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374523754
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art.

The Abyss

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374516669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.

Oriental Tales

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374519978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Author: Josyane Savigneau
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226735443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578

Book Description
One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.

Memoirs of Hadrian

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The memoirs portray the Roman Emperor Hadrian on the the eve of his death and describe his reflections as he gazes out upon the city that seemed to him indestructible and that he now fears will fall. As with most of Yourcenar's work, the novel is a minutely researched reconstruction of actual events in the distant past through which she develops penetrating and fully credible portraits of the people she describes.

Coup de Grace

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374516316
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Hadrian

Author: Anthony R Birley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135952264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415

Book Description
Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the 'Greek Renaissance' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his 'Greek' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy. No comprehensive account of Hadrian's life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favourite, Antinous, to provide a thorough and fascinating account of the private and public life of a man who, though hated when he died, left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire.

Beloved and God

Author: Royston Lambert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857999440
Category : Emperors
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Who was Antonius? Why did he become a God? in Beloved and God, Royston Lambert tackles all the mysteries the story presents. With many illustations of the people and places concerned in the affair and of the splendid and fascinating artefacts which it produced, this account, based on thorough research, is a compelling read.