ORESTES, Roman General

ōrĕstˈēz, d. 476, Roman general. With the help of barbarians he deposed (475) the Roman emperor of the West, Julius Nepos, and raised his own son, Romulus Augustulus, to the throne. The next year the barbarians under Odoacer revolted; Orestes was killed at Piacenza, and his son was deposed.

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Orestes Brownson and the Problem of Revelation: The Protestant Years
Book by Arie J. Griffioen; Peter Lang, 2003
Subjects: Brownson, Orestes Augustus--1803-1876, Revelation--History Of Doctrines--19th Century
...re-examination began with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.s generally sympathetic Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrims Progress (1939). Schlesinger...career as a Protestant, prior to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1844. Research into Brownsons Protestant...
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Orestes A. Brownson: A Bibliography, 1826-1876
Book by Patrick W. Carey; Marquette University Press, 1997
Subjects: Brownson, Orestes Augustus--1803-1876--Bibliography, Catholic Church--United States--Doctrines--History--19th Century--Bibliography, Transcendentalism (New England)--Bibliography, United States--Church History--19th Century--Bibliography, United States--Intellectual Life--19th Century--Bibliography, Universalist Churches--United States--Doctrines--History--19th Century--Bibliography
...Pilgrims Progress: Orestes A. Brownson Boston...attention in the general surveys of American...Microfilm Edition of the Orestes Brownson Papers...bibliography can generally distinguish the...rights. Oration of Orestes A. Brownson Delivered...Greene, 1841. A generally favorable review...
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In Search of the American Spirit: The Political Thought of Orestes Brownson
Book by Gregory S. Butler; Southern Illinois University Press, 1992
Subjects: Brownson, Orestes Augustus--1803-1876--Contributions In Political Science
...antithesis between the two general belief systems of the world...for civilizing the decaying Roman empire and for building great...cult of humanity. "The most general fact in the growth of societies...not simply an increase in the general standard of living but the...
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Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress
Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Little, Brown and Company, 1939
Subjects: Brownson, Orestes Augustus--1803-1876
...reprinted part of a dis course by Orestes Brownson on "The Wants of...Chelsea, and he was known generally as one of its leading members...now on the throne." It is generally accounted the most virtuous...but angels must weep, and general emigration would only attenuate...
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Religion and the Public Schools in 19th Century America: The Contribution of Orestes A. Brownson
Book by Edward J. Power; Paulist Press, 1996
Subjects: Brownson, Orestes Augustus--1803-1876, Catholic Church--Education--United States--History--19th Century, Church And Education--United States--History--19th Century, Religion In The Public Schools--United States--History--19th Century
...should not be understood as a general disaffection with religion...rigid in its antagonism to Roman Catholicism, whose subordination...best in his "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge...all kinds and learning in general. As new states were admitted...
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journal articles on: Orestes Roman General  - 51 results

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Bibliografía General De Panamá
Journal article by Humberto Lypez Cruz; Chasqui, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects: Economya, Historia, Literatura panameya, Panamy, Sociologya
...asedio sociosemiotico a un poema de Manuel Orestes Nieto". Southeastern Latin Americanist...Frachia de Cocco, Graciela y Ruben Manuel Roman. "Mar de mascaras: la cuentistica jaramilloleviana...literatura centroamericana. Ed. Jorge Roman-Lagunas. Guatemala: Editorial Oscar de...
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The Warren Cup: Homoerotic Love and Symposial Rhetoric in Silver
Journal article by John Pollini; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, 1999
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Homosexuality, Roman civilization
...Fig. 3) . By the Roman period the cithera...the tibiae are generally associated with...since peace, to the Roman mind, was generally conceived as the...nature. Since it is generally thought that many...and presumably on Roman silver vessels...
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Rethinking Eighteenth-century Rome
Journal article by Wendy Wassying Roworth; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art exhibits, Bowron, Edgar Peters, Catalogs, Rishel, Joseph J, Roman civilization
...from and to model their own work on the Roman Baroque classicism of Reni, Domenichino...make art accessible to the public and in general advanced an atmosphere of creative enterprise...Piranesi and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Roman Printmaking" provides insights into the...
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The Image of Ganymede in France, 1730-1820: the Survival of a Homoerotic Myth
Journal article by Michael Preston Worley; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Art history, Mythology, Sculpture
...recalls the Doryphoros and its Roman derivations. This is a languid...nature of the myth. On a more general level, other examples of the...monuments had its place in Greek and Roman religion but in modern-day France...the colossal bronze statue of General Desaix by Claude Dejoux (1732-1816...
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The Dialectics of Decay: Rereading the Kantian Subject
Journal article by Karen Lang; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, 1997
Subjects: Art history, Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804), Philosophy
...scene between Iphigeneia and Orestes, a motif of friendship taken...Panninis Gallery of Views of Roman Antiquity, Tischbeins painting...particular) from nature (the general) might be overcome in imagination...Anthony Giddens, 1991(91) Kants general emphasis on freedom and morality...
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Orestes Brownson and the Truth about America
Magazine article by Peter Augustine Lawler; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2002
Subjects: Brownson, Orestes A.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Catholic authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christianity and politics--History
...Spirit: The Political Thought of Orestes Brownson, 1992), Brownson understood...Brownson had decided to convert to Roman Catholicism and was received...truth." Biblical revelation in general and Christianity in particular...promulgated. Teaching a vague, general faith that denies the importance...
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The Road from Ravenna: In the Footsteps of the Last Roman Emperor
Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 298, September 2006
Subjects: Caesar, Julius--Political activity, Ravenna, Italy--Description and travel, Ravenna, Italy--Political aspects, Roman emperors--Political activity
...thus the scene of the Roman Empires final act, or...installed by his father, a general named Orestes, people gave the name...this problem.) But then Orestes fell afoul of barbarian...sensibilities. Its part Roman, part Byzantine. Its...
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The Persistence of Byzantium
Magazine article by Warren Treadgold; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Autumn 1998
Subjects: Byzantium (Ancient city)--Analysis, Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc.--Analysis
...Germany. Probably most important, the general Byzantine disapproval of politics - the...though usually adding the filioque). Roman Catholics also accept the Byzantines seventh...back to the ancient Greeks, who felt that Orestes had to kill Clytemnestra because she had...
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Murder Most Foul: Robert Garland Asks What Murder Meant to the Apparently Bloodthirsty Greeks and Romans
Magazine article by Robert Garland; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004
Subjects: Murder--Social aspects
...to-nothing about the general level of violence in...the earliest surviving Roman law code, ordered parents...mythological characters Orestes and Alcmaeon, who killed...words, So perish any Roman woman who mourns for...that the welfare of the Roman state had to take precedence...
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Time to Rethink Immigration?
Magazine article by Peter Brimelow; National Review, Vol. 44, June 22, 1992
Subjects: Immigrants--Statistics, Immigration Act of 1965, United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service--Social policy
...Congress appears to have shaken off its general paralysis to recognize that immigration...substantially higher than that of the general population." Governor Pete Wilson has...unfair to Jewish organizations. They have generally supported immigration. FAIRs Director...
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encyclopedia articles on: Orestes Roman General  - 4 results

 
 
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Orestes , Roman General
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ORESTES , Roman general orest ez, d. 476, Roman general. With the help of barbarians he deposed (475) the Roman emperor of the West, Julius Nepos...barbarians under Odoacer revolted; Orestes was killed at Piacenza, and his...
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Odoacer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Odoacer their king. Odoacer defeated the Roman general Orestes at Piacenza, took Ravenna (the West Roman capital), and deposed Romulus Augustulus , last Roman emperor of the West (until the coronation...
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Romulus Augustulus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...yool s ogus tyool s, d. after 476, last Roman emperor of the West (475 76). His father, the general Orestes , deposed Julius Nepos and proclaimed Romulus Augustulus emperor. Orestes ruled for a year in his sons name. Odoacer...
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Hecker, Isaac Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...son of Prussian immigrants. Feeling the general discontent of his day in the dying Puritanism...of Thoreau, Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and Orestes Brownson. Still dissatisfied, he entered (1844) the Roman Catholic Church, joined the Redemptorist...


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