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Lays of Ancient Rome, The

By: Thomas Babington Macaulay

...The Lays of Ancient Rome comprise four narrative poems comprised by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: recalling popular episodes from Roman historical-legends that were strongly moral in tone: exemplifying Roman virtue against Latine perfi...

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Ades Web Magazine: Rome

By: Manuel Balossi

...Rome Ades Web Magazine 2011/02 3 Ancient Rome 25 Old Town Centre and Trastevere 51 Tridente 68 Campidoglio, ... ...Rome Ades Web Magazine 2011/02 3 Ancient Rome 25 Old Town Centre and Trastevere 51 Tridente 68 Campidoglio, Colosseo... ... City - St. Peter’s Basilica 157 Vatican Museums Ades Web Magazine 2011/02 Rome Ancient Rome romAn forum 4 R o m e Ades web magazine piAzzA del for... ...- St. Peter’s Basilica 157 Vatican Museums Ades Web Magazine 2011/02 Rome Ancient Rome romAn forum 4 R o m e Ades web magazine piAzzA del foro 5 R ... ...sforzA 115 R o m e Ades web magazine Trevi, Quirinale and Villa Borghese rome from villA borghese 117 R o m e Ades web magazine rome from villA bor... ...Ades web magazine rome from villA borghese 118 R o m e Ades web magazine rome from villA borghese 119 R o m e Ades web magazine villA borghese 120 ... ...agazine piAzzA bArberini - triton fountAin 125 R o m e Ades web magazine rome roofs 126 R o m e Ades web magazine quirinAle pAlAce 127 R o m e Ades...

...The Roman Forum was the political, commercial and religious center of Ancient Rome: walking among arches, temples in ruins, stone paved streets towards the Coliseum is a unique experience...

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Quo Vadis

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz

...Sienkiewicz’s epic novel of ancient Rome finds the Empire at the height of her power and splendor, but struggling with the madness and cruelty of the Emperor Nero. A new religion is sweeping across the world, causing many Romans to wonder and leading ma...

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Eclogues, The

By: Publius Vergilius Maro

...This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely inspired not only by the Romans themselves, but by the Medieval Catholic church, The Eclogues is one of the most beloved collections of Latin short poetry...

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. IV, The

By: Edward Gibbon

...e Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I, The

By: Edward Gibbon

...he Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell.Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI, The

By: Edward Gibbon

...e Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians. (Summary from Wikikipedi...

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V, The

By: Edward Gibbon

...e Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians. (Summary from Wikikipedi...

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From the Foundation of the City Vol. 01

By: Livius. Titus (Livy)

...Ab urbe condita, is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in the Latin language by Titus Livius, an ancient Roman historian. The work covers the time from the stories of Aeneas, the earliest legendary period from before the city's founding in c. 753 BC, to Livy'...

Ancient Texts, Classics (antiquity), History

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The Matter of Britain : Assembled in Date Order from all the Original Ancient Sources.: Assembled in Date Order from all the Original Ancient Sources.

By: Edwin Colwell Hopper

.... Cicero. The Era of Caesar. The Writings of Julius Caesar. 55 BCE – 40 AD. Tacitus. Romans in Germany. Christians in Britain. Strabo. 41 – 99 Rome invades Britain. Caractacus. Boedicea. The Battle of Airtach. Tain Bo Cuailnge. Tain from The Book of Leinster. Pliny on Britain. Pliny on Mining, Metals and Magnets. Pliny on Pottery, Buildings and Amber. Tacitus...

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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

... Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME Al... ... Institute in Ascoli Piceno, which is a member of the Sophia University of Rome, to participate in a seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. The same ... ...expanded and presented at the Second Ulyssiads of the Sophia University of Rome, organized by the Institute in Tempio Pausania and held in Alghero, ... ...HE PACT FOR COSMOARTISTIC BEAUTY Those of us in the Sophia University of Rome have formulated the following pact: 20 THE COSMOARTISTIC PACT F... ...ecoming whole. 39 - Those of us who belong to the Sophia University of Rome are called to achieve this goal. ******* 40 PART TWO ... ...dered objects we can work with creatively. In Cosmo-Art, we face our most ancient traumas and most terrible conflicts so we can transform them into...

...for Russian and Baltic country psychologists. They had come to Italy to the Institute in Ascoli Piceno, which is a member of the Sophia University of Rome, to participate in a seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. The same paper was expanded and presented at the Second Ulyssiads of the Sophia University of Rome, organized by the Institute in Tempio Pausania and held in Al...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...veling from one universe to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERS... ... 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence - Attribution-NonCommercial-N... ...te of Existential Personalistic Anthropology) of the Sophia University of Rome. ** For a better understanding of this definition, see the interpre... ... a woman” (see “I Laboratori corali della Cosmo-art”, Sophia University of Rome S.U.R. 2006). 10 But there are instead those who wish to become p... ...in September 1985, at the IV National Congress of the Sophia University of Rome. It was published for the first time in French, in my book “La vie c... ... time (the I and its roots). 21 4) – The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy, the I and religion, the... ...om and courage he creates new ways of acting, ways that surprised both the ancient world and the one that came afterwards. But Ulysses does even more... ...did, the stars found in the Big Dipper. Those who learned to navigate in ancient times looked at the sky for a long time while they were still on ...

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Snapshots

By: Ms. Mehreen Ahmed

...Introduction Chapter 1 Europe Musings of the Muses: Italy Rome Florence Venice La Ville-Lumiere: France Paris Chateau De Versailles Divonne-les-Bains Chiming clocks: Geneva To be or not to be: England London Brighton Moors’ Last Sigh: Spain ...

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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

...to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into betwe... ...n into it. Julianus, the magician, is reported to have driven the plague out of Rome by magical power. Apuleius, a deciple of Plato, wrote at length... ...ng the antiquity of Witchcraft, we must needs confess that it hath been of very ancient time, because the Scriptures do testify so much, for in the t... ... claimed exclusively by those who remained in visible communion with the See of Rome, and many Roman Catholic writers of those periods maintained th... ...ers of the Middle Ages and biblical times, and many of the magi and wise men of ancient ages, succeeded in curing numbers of diseases, without any m... ... diseases, without any medicine whatever; these men were the true magicians, or ancient physicians, and of the race of Hindoos , Israelites, Jews, A...

...ercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into between the merely human party, and his or her supernatural assistant. But modern times have amply supplied this defect. The witch or sorcerer could not secure th...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...diments, to the observation of the true Phenomena. They are those two great and ancient fortresses, which have served, and do serve, as a refuge and... ...e all the rest, in the chief of the apostles, St. Peter, that is, the bishop of Rome. Consequently, we acknowledge this bishop of Rome as the true c... ...f all the inhabitants of the earth), this centre of unity which now standeth in Rome and the nations, shall then stand in Zion, in Jerusalem, and in... ...fference whatever: seeing that, before St. Peter had received orders to pass to Rome and plant his seat therein, (and perhaps before knowing and und... ...away the centre of unity of the true Christian church, and to transfer it all to Rome, for the Coming of Messiah Vol. 2 Part II greater benefit a... ..., in the least reflection, you will not fail to recollect, that this same thing anciently happened to the Jewish doctors, when they came to the expl... ...lection, that this, and a thousand other things more minute, were already, from ancient time, entered and announced to the whole house of Jacob ... ...t, are not found in the sacred interpreters, nor in the theologians, nor in the ancient fathers of the church: therefore they are, or may be, false ... ...e second is the true cause or origin of this fact. The fact is, that neither the ancient fathers of the church, nor the ecclesiastical doctors, who h...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...the whole earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of r... ...ered its great weight and value, as an all-sufficient argument for the orthodoxy of the ancient system, and the heterodoxy of the commonly received ... ...s foul effects against truth, and by as dishonest means, as ever did the Inquisition of Rome. Perceiving well that my worthy master Ben-Ezra had in ... ...f the mass, the seven sacraments, the hierarchy, and the central unity of the church in Rome. But though no one more abhorreth, or will more steadil... ...be at all compared to him. His book is the finest demonstration of the orthodoxy of the ancient system of the millenarians which can be imagined; in... ...lonish captivity did possess the same assurance of the divinity of this book, which the ancient Jews had of all their prophecies when they had seen ... ...ed with all manner of rust and corruption. But as he hath justified the opinions of the ancient Millenarians from the errors and gross indelicacies ... ...th. This, as an emblem, the Spirit of God in the Apocalypse hath applied to the city of Rome, and the kings of the earth confederate with her, who b... ...uction, the emblem of that papal city (not R ome, as I judge, but the ten kingdoms with Rome as their centre of unity) which will be destroyed in lik...

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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rome sat entrenched in her spiritual- temporal power. Now in The Babyloni... ...y have been called, we read at the close: “I know another little song about Rome, and if their ears itch to hear it, I will sing it for them and I wi... ... them and I will pitch it in a high key. Dost thou take my meaning, beloved Rome?” 3 In this book on the “Babylonian Captivity,” later that year, h... ... reformatory treatise of 1520 that he would “sing another little song about Rome if their ears itch to hear it,” he found that some ears were itching... ...s. Maurice Bévenot, S. J. (Westminster, Maryland, 1957), p. 31. (Vol. 25 of Ancient Christian Writers.) 50 infanti, a child under the age of seven ... ...romises of God from the beginning of the world; indeed, whatever value those ancient promises possessed was altogether derived from this new promise ... ...ed a sacrament of the New Law and of the church alone. The marriages of the ancients were no less sacred than are ours, nor are those of unbelievers... ...s Graeca, vol. 3. Luther was among the first to question the high repute and ancient origin which tradition had assigned to these writings when it id... ...r praying priesthood is not of God; as, indeed, it is not. But which of the ancient Fathers claimed that in this passage priests were ordained? Where...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizations - such as Troy, long considered a mere fab... ...her's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of Rome's seven kings (said to have ruled 715-673 BC). Stories duri... ...te, or guileless. Hence the words candle, incandescent. Political candidates in Rome wore a chalk-powdered white toga. http://www.hyperdicti... ...s etched in our minds. The crossword puzzle appears to be a British institution, as ancient as the monarchy and a lot more rewarding. The surpri... ...reat_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that virtually every bit of modern knowle... ...onal hygiene was rediscovered only in the late 19th century, having been popular in ancient Greece and Rome almost two thousand years before. W... ...discovered only in the late 19th century, having been popular in ancient Greece and Rome almost two thousand years before. Water was considered... ... Nero According to the historian Suetonius, Emperor Nero (37- 68), fifth Emperor of Rome from AD 54 to 68, was a fan of murder. Clad in disguise, he... ...ulti-cellular organisms, such as plants and humans, evolved over billions of years. Ancient bacteria infiltrated the first eukaryotic cells - i.e., ...

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Theological Immortal Romance

By: Kevin B. Wright

...terpiece I couldn’t help but be amazed at how deep Wright connects with such ancient concepts and deities in his works. I admittedly am no scholar of ... ... another rose with the strength of a thousand Gods I thread the century like ancient pearls without the height of wings. I explain the air stirring in... ...of my heart in company of all saints. I would give my days for her as far as Rome. To suffer the pain of sweet torment and be put to death by flesh. I...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...tage specifically for those living today? Humanity is ever developing. In ancient times, people’s needs were very basic: food, shelter, and procreat... ...icted. The first time such a state occurred was thousands of years ago in ancient Babylon. The Biblical story about the Tower of Babel described peo... ...s form. Man was made to raise the heavens Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk In ancient Babylon, it was Abraham the Patriarch, a resident of Ur of the cha... ...from the world of Ein Sof [infinity], through the worlds of Adam Kadmon [ancient man], Atzilut [Emanation], Beria [creation], Yetzira [Formation],... ... german humanist, political counselor to the chancellor, and an expert in ancient languages and traditions, was affiliated with the heads of the Pl... ...0 uNloCkiNg the Zohar 205) At that time, a nation will awaken against evil Rome from the end of the world and will wage war against it for three mon... ...ah Son of Joseph, all the kings of the world will gather in the big city, Rome, and the creator will awaken upon them fire and hail and crystal ston... ...hey will perish from the world. And only those kings that did not come to Rome will remain in the world and will later return to wage other wars. At... ...” all those whose strength is from the left will gather in the big city, Rome, which is the head of all the forces of the left. “And the c reator w...

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