Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Time. Truth. Life. 'There is weakness in all when lies are told but the strength in each is what we must behold.' Can our Chosen One find her way back from the deception and chaos that surrounds her, or is this the life of a trapped girl, broken and lost forever? A worldwide search might be on the cards but what if the girl they're looking for was never meant to be found? These are the questions both sides face in a race against time, truth, and the life they are all trying to save. The battle against evil continues in the most unlikely of places, and emotions run wild in this next instalment of the Afterlife saga. Will you take the plunge with our characters and delve deeper into the world of Afterlife, further than you've ever gone before?
Cult of the Hexad
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Time. Truth. Life. 'There is weakness in all when lies are told but the strength in each is what we must behold.' Can our Chosen One find her way back from the deception and chaos that surrounds her, or is this the life of a trapped girl, broken and lost forever? A worldwide search might be on the cards but what if the girl they're looking for was never meant to be found? These are the questions both sides face in a race against time, truth, and the life they are all trying to save. The battle against evil continues in the most unlikely of places, and emotions run wild in this next instalment of the Afterlife saga. Will you take the plunge with our characters and delve deeper into the world of Afterlife, further than you've ever gone before?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Time. Truth. Life. 'There is weakness in all when lies are told but the strength in each is what we must behold.' Can our Chosen One find her way back from the deception and chaos that surrounds her, or is this the life of a trapped girl, broken and lost forever? A worldwide search might be on the cards but what if the girl they're looking for was never meant to be found? These are the questions both sides face in a race against time, truth, and the life they are all trying to save. The battle against evil continues in the most unlikely of places, and emotions run wild in this next instalment of the Afterlife saga. Will you take the plunge with our characters and delve deeper into the world of Afterlife, further than you've ever gone before?
Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals
Author: Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192569104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society's efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome's quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus' narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius' failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192569104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society's efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome's quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus' narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius' failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.
Sacrifice of the Septimus
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539360643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Sands of Time are filled with dangers and new enemies to face. But for Keira to stand tall in a world she does not know, she must first brave the differences in loving the man she calls Draven and the man she must now call her King. Join Keira as she is thrown into an ancient time and faces her biggest challenge yet... How to get a Demon King to fall for a human girl he is forbidden to love.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539360643
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Sands of Time are filled with dangers and new enemies to face. But for Keira to stand tall in a world she does not know, she must first brave the differences in loving the man she calls Draven and the man she must now call her King. Join Keira as she is thrown into an ancient time and faces her biggest challenge yet... How to get a Demon King to fall for a human girl he is forbidden to love.
Tacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45
Author: Mathew Owen
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
e emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's 'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
e emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's 'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
Blood of the Infinity War
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
As Keira still finds Persian sands beneath her feet, she is yet to discover the true meaning of what it is to be The Chosen One to the King of Kings. For now that Arsaces has her, he simply plans on keeping her... No matter what the cost. Even if that means fighting the prophecy and stealing her from the only world she has ever known... A world that is about to end.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
As Keira still finds Persian sands beneath her feet, she is yet to discover the true meaning of what it is to be The Chosen One to the King of Kings. For now that Arsaces has her, he simply plans on keeping her... No matter what the cost. Even if that means fighting the prophecy and stealing her from the only world she has ever known... A world that is about to end.
The Two Kings
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
After facing her nightmares head on, Keira soon finds her troubles have only just begun, and if she thought mortals were dangerous, then being hunted by the world's most powerful beings will spin her further into a web of supernatural destruction. Keira can't help seeing the handsome man before her, she can't help the dreams that consume her and neither can she stop him from wanting her. The controlling man that follows her every move isn't the man she's dating, but the man that's hunting her. Now it's down to the only man with enough power to keep her safe, and he doesn't play well with others. Nor does he take kindly to people trying to take what belongs to him, and Keira belongs to only one man... Dominic Draven. Will the fight for their love be enough to survive the new world she is forced to live in? And more importantly, can she survive being with the King of the Afterlife?!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
After facing her nightmares head on, Keira soon finds her troubles have only just begun, and if she thought mortals were dangerous, then being hunted by the world's most powerful beings will spin her further into a web of supernatural destruction. Keira can't help seeing the handsome man before her, she can't help the dreams that consume her and neither can she stop him from wanting her. The controlling man that follows her every move isn't the man she's dating, but the man that's hunting her. Now it's down to the only man with enough power to keep her safe, and he doesn't play well with others. Nor does he take kindly to people trying to take what belongs to him, and Keira belongs to only one man... Dominic Draven. Will the fight for their love be enough to survive the new world she is forced to live in? And more importantly, can she survive being with the King of the Afterlife?!
Neo-Latin and the Vernaculars
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004386408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The early modern world was profoundly bilingual: alongside the emerging vernaculars, Latin continued to be pervasively used well into the 18th century. Authors were often active in and conversant with both vernacular and Latin discourses. The language they chose for their writings depended on various factors, be they social, cultural, or merely aesthetic, and had an impact on how and by whom these texts were received. Due to the increasing interest in Neo-Latin studies, early modern bilingualism has recently been attracting attention. This volumes provides a series of case studies focusing on key aspects of early modern bilingualism, such as language choice, translations/rewritings, and the interferences between vernacular and Neo-Latin discourses. Contributors are Giacomo Comiati, Ronny Kaiser, Teodoro Katinis, Francesco Lucioli, Giuseppe Marcellino, Marianne Pade, Maxim Rigaux, Florian Schaffenrath, Claudia Schindler, Federica Signoriello, Thomas Velle, Alexander Winkler.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004386408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The early modern world was profoundly bilingual: alongside the emerging vernaculars, Latin continued to be pervasively used well into the 18th century. Authors were often active in and conversant with both vernacular and Latin discourses. The language they chose for their writings depended on various factors, be they social, cultural, or merely aesthetic, and had an impact on how and by whom these texts were received. Due to the increasing interest in Neo-Latin studies, early modern bilingualism has recently been attracting attention. This volumes provides a series of case studies focusing on key aspects of early modern bilingualism, such as language choice, translations/rewritings, and the interferences between vernacular and Neo-Latin discourses. Contributors are Giacomo Comiati, Ronny Kaiser, Teodoro Katinis, Francesco Lucioli, Giuseppe Marcellino, Marianne Pade, Maxim Rigaux, Florian Schaffenrath, Claudia Schindler, Federica Signoriello, Thomas Velle, Alexander Winkler.
The Triple Goddess
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Keira soon finds herself becoming a pawn in a game she could never hope to win, and now the King on the board is a Vampire on a mission. With the only man able to stop him miles away from the mountain prison in which she is kept, she must now choose which path to take in order to survive. With enemies at all sides closing in quick, she must tread carefully, or she might find the man to save her isn't the White Knight she loves... but the Dark King she loathes. Time with the Vampire King is dangerous, and Keira soon learns that it is more than just the power of her mind she needs to keep locked but also the power of her heart... And Lucius might just hold the key to both.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Keira soon finds herself becoming a pawn in a game she could never hope to win, and now the King on the board is a Vampire on a mission. With the only man able to stop him miles away from the mountain prison in which she is kept, she must now choose which path to take in order to survive. With enemies at all sides closing in quick, she must tread carefully, or she might find the man to save her isn't the White Knight she loves... but the Dark King she loathes. Time with the Vampire King is dangerous, and Keira soon learns that it is more than just the power of her mind she needs to keep locked but also the power of her heart... And Lucius might just hold the key to both.
The Quarter Moon
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
With Keira finding death on her door, she is suddenly plunged into a world of the unknown and has to face it alone... Or does she? Soon this new life is filled with heartache, with shadowed followers and cryptic messages that only promises to lead her deeper into the world of the supernatural like never before. For Keira, even taking a breath without the other half of her soul is painful. So when given the choice to either accept what life the fates have decided she live, or to force that life behind her and accept the dangerous journey ahead, the answer is easy... She will fight to save the man she loves. But this fight includes Heaven and Hell in search of the truth, a truth that will either set her heart free or be destroyed on the other side. Are the fates really to be trusted?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
With Keira finding death on her door, she is suddenly plunged into a world of the unknown and has to face it alone... Or does she? Soon this new life is filled with heartache, with shadowed followers and cryptic messages that only promises to lead her deeper into the world of the supernatural like never before. For Keira, even taking a breath without the other half of her soul is painful. So when given the choice to either accept what life the fates have decided she live, or to force that life behind her and accept the dangerous journey ahead, the answer is easy... She will fight to save the man she loves. But this fight includes Heaven and Hell in search of the truth, a truth that will either set her heart free or be destroyed on the other side. Are the fates really to be trusted?
Afterlife
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Afterlife... just some gothic nightclub where gossip is fuelled by the presence of a rich and unearthly hands-on family or, Afterlife... the strange place where time seems to stand still, and guests feel the presence of something more powerful held within the confines of the VIP. Keira is new to this small, cold town, and is running from a past that seems to feast on her darkest memories. She finds living with her sister away from English soil to be just the ticket to the new life she is desperately trying to find. So, when the offer of a job at the infamous gothic nightclub Afterlife comes along, she thinks that Lady Luck has finally found her. That is until its seductively dark and forbidding owner, Dominic Draven, sets eyes on her. All at once she is captivated and plunged into a world she never knew existed but the deeper her obsession with Draven becomes, the harder it is to decide... should she stay and continue to work within the shadows of the supernatural? Or should she run from a madness she thinks may consume her?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913769185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Afterlife... just some gothic nightclub where gossip is fuelled by the presence of a rich and unearthly hands-on family or, Afterlife... the strange place where time seems to stand still, and guests feel the presence of something more powerful held within the confines of the VIP. Keira is new to this small, cold town, and is running from a past that seems to feast on her darkest memories. She finds living with her sister away from English soil to be just the ticket to the new life she is desperately trying to find. So, when the offer of a job at the infamous gothic nightclub Afterlife comes along, she thinks that Lady Luck has finally found her. That is until its seductively dark and forbidding owner, Dominic Draven, sets eyes on her. All at once she is captivated and plunged into a world she never knew existed but the deeper her obsession with Draven becomes, the harder it is to decide... should she stay and continue to work within the shadows of the supernatural? Or should she run from a madness she thinks may consume her?