Author: Alexander G. McKay
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
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Author: Alexander G. McKay
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Category : Campania (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Alexander G. McKay
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801859045
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In a fascinating study of ancient Roman architecture, classics scholar Alexander McKay examines simple houses, mansions, estates and palatial buildings, interior furnishings, and gardens--revealing that Roman civilization was astonishingly similar to our own. He also discusses the conditions of life in the Roman provinces. 153 illustrations.

Author: Alexander G. McKay
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Category : Campania (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Alexander G. McKay
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Category : Campania (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: Alexander Gordon MacKay
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Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Amedeo Maiuri
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Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Author: Alexander G. McKay
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Category : Campania (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Antony Augoustakis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192534823
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakes invited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril.