OSTIA

ŏsˈtēə, ancient city of Italy, at the mouth of the Tiber. It was founded (4th cent. b.c.) as a protection for Rome, then developed (from the 1st cent. b.c.) as a Roman port, rivaling Puteoli. Augustus, Claudius I, Trajan, and Hadrian expanded the city and harbor. From the 3d cent. a.d. the city began to decline. The ruins, of great archaeological interest, rival those of Pompeii in showing the layout of an ancient Italian city. In the late 1980s it served as a refugee camp for processing Jewish émigrés from the Soviet Union.

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books on: Ostia  - 1389 results

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Ostia: Aspects of Roman City Life
Book by Gustav Hermansen; University of Alberta Press, 1981
Subjects: Ostia (Extinct City)--Economic Conditions, Ostia (Extinct City)--Social Conditions, Ostia (Extinct City)--Social Life And Customs
metre; and through Ostia to Porta Romana was about one and a half...arnphitheatre, which gives conclusive proof that Ostia had no amphitheatre. 26. In Confessiones...habebat, prospectabatur, illic apud Ostia Tiberina, ubi remoti a turbis post longi...
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Roman Ostia
Book by Russell Meiggs; Clarendon Press, 1973
Subjects: Ostia (Extinct City)
BIBLIOGRAPHY GENERAL studies of Ostia and Portus are separately listed first...exceptions, specifically concerned with Ostia. No attempt has been made to list the...useful in this inquiry. GENERAL STUDIES OF OSTIA C. FEA, Relazione di II1I viaggio ad...
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Sacred Realm: The Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World
Book by Steven Fine; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Palestine--Antiquities--Exhibitions, Synagogue Architecture--Palestine--Exhibitions, Synagogues--Palestine--Exhibitions
...existence of a permanent Torah Shrine at Ostia before the construction of the fourth...Image of a Menorah facsimile Plate XVIIa Ostia, fourth to fifth century C.E., Stone 32 O 48 O 184 cm Ostia, Soprintendenza Archeologica 1883 Among...
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The Golden House of Nero: Some Aspects of Roman Architecture
Book by Axel Boëthius; University of Michigan Press, 1960
Subjects: Architecture, Roman, Cities And Towns, Ancient, City Planning--Rome
...modern. 150 -51 a Casa del Termopolio, Ostia. 150 b The door of a taberna with counter...Taberna in the portico of the Decumanus in Ostia. 151 d Taberna in a portico in Naples...typical contignatio. Casa delle Muse, Ostia. 155 83. Caseggiato delle Trifore, Ostia...
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Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study
Book by Frank Sear; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Archaeology--Rome, Rome--Antiquities--Catalogs, Theaters--Rome
...1982),843-7. Mitens, Teatri Greci, I60-1. OSTIA (Ostia Antica, Roma) (Plan I9, Pis. 7,8) Location: in...Bibliography: C. Fea, Relazione di un viaggio ad Ostia e alla villa di Plinio (Rome, I 802), 59. A. Nibby...
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journal articles on: Ostia  - 57 results

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Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia
Journal article by Dorian Borbonus; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (Book)--Book reviews
...the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. by Dorian Borbonus Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. By Gregory S. Aldrete. (Westport...exemplify the subject of each chapter. Ostia and Pompeii receive brief attention toward...
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Death and the Cardinal: The Two Bodies of Guillaume d'Estouteville [*
Journal article by Meredith J. Gill; Vol. 54, 2001
Subjects: Burial--Rites and ceremonies, Cardinals--Conduct of life, Rites and ceremonies--Planning, d'Estouteville, Guillaume--Conduct of life
...dEstoutevilles successor as Cardinal of Ostia) could well have been among such churchmen...wanted to be buried without a marker at Ostia: "All I ask of you is that, wherever...one, for his successor as Cardinal of Ostia, Julius II, whose projects rendered the...
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Christian Pessimism on the Walls of the Vatican Galleria Delle Carte Geografiche
Journal article by Walter Goffart; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Geography, Historical--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Maps, Early--Analysis, Vatican City--Galleries and museums
...to revive the ancient port facilities of Ostia.(33) A boundary agreement between Bologna...390-91 no. 429, 402-03 no. 441 (Ostia, tacked on as extras to distant islands...40 (north). Portrayals of ancient Ostia are tacked on to the lower registers of...
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St. Monica and the Mystical Gift of Tears
Journal article by Rebecca Moore; Magistra, Vol. 4, 1998
Subjects: Child development, Christianity, Females, Gender, History, Human relations, Interpersonal communication, Literature, Mysticism, Occult sciences, Parapsychology, Parents & parenting, Personal relationships, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality, Women
...occurs to Monica and Augustine together at Ostia as Augustine is preparing to return to...42-3. Monicas participation in the Ostia experience would make no sense were it...In addition to Paul Henrys account of Ostia, see Courcelle, 222-6; ODonnell...
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The Baker, His Tomb, His Wife, and Her Breadbasket: the Monument of Eurysaces in Rome
Journal article by Lauren Hackworth Petersen; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Archaeology, Architecture, Rome Italy, Slavery, Tombs
...Kneading-machine basins found at Ostia Antica and Pompeii strongly resemble the...bottom of surviving kneading machines in Ostia and Pompeii; these depressions were carved...just outside the Porta Marina in nearby Ostia (ca. 30-20 B.C.E.), celebrates...
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Fear & Fatal Power: When Cilician Pirates Attacked a Major Port of Rome, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus-Pompey the Great-Manipulated the Fear of the People to Acquire Immense Power
Magazine article by Ii. Joe Wolverton; The New American, Vol. 26, May 24, 2010
Subjects: Piracy (Transportation crime), Pompey the Great, Rome (Ancient state), Separation of powers--History
...interests up a notch. The bustling port at Ostia was their target. These brazen buccaneers...power it provided. The pirate attack on Ostia in 68 B.C. was a perfect pretext for...completely unsettled by the rampage at Ostia and the audacity of the attack on the centuries...
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Magical Mystery Tour
Magazine article by Caroline Lawrence; History Today, Vol. 58, January 2008
Subjects: Books and reading--Personal narratives, Travel--Personal narratives, Travel--United Kingdom, Writing--Personal narratives
...standing in the ruins of Romes ancient port: Ostia Antica. It is one of our stops on a high...of Nancy Drew, the golden afternoon in Ostia and Homers Iliad paved the way, but reading...appeal to them. I could set the books in Ostia, the port of ancient Rome, where I had...
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Jose Manuel Ballester: Galeria Distrito Cuatro
Magazine article by Pablo Llorca; Artforum International, Vol. 47, January 2009
Subjects: Ballester, Jose Manuel--Criticism and interpretation, Ballester, Jose Manuel--Exhibitions, Digital photography--Criticism and interpretation, Digital photography--Exhibitions
...amplified visual analysis of the canvass composition. This is the case with Puerto en Ostia (Port in Ostia), 2008, based on Claude Lorrains Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of St. Paula, 1639, where we clearly see the dialectic established...
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Urbane Guerrillas: The Historic Reciprocity between Culture and the City Can Help Reforge Architecture with a Sense of Civic Purpose
Magazine article by Catherine Slessor; The Architectural Review, Vol. 223, June 2008
Subjects: Architects--Management, Architectural history--Analysis, Art museum architecture--Analysis, City planning, Cultural historians--Analysis, Social change--Analysis, Urban planning
...unlikely places. The mosaics of the ancient Roman port city of Ostia, for instance, are now transmuted into the digital landscape of Times Square. As we do through media today, the people of Ostia occupied several spaces and realities at once, framed by streets...
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The Plight of American Manufacturing: Since 2001, the U.S. Has Lost 42,400 Factories-And Its Technical Edge
Magazine article by Richard Mccormack; The American Prospect, Vol. 21, January 2010
Subjects: Business-government relations--Management, Economic development--Management, Economic development--United States, Manufacturing industries--Economic aspects, Manufacturing industry--Economic aspects
...which he chronicled the economy of ancient Rome: "By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the...Sears, which owns K-Mart (248,600 containers). Our own Ostia Road. The United States is not losing old, inefficient industries...
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newspaper articles on: Ostia  - 54 results

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I've Been Cured by Ostia Path; STEVE ANGLESEY Finds a Fab Family Resort near Rome
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 12, 2011
Subjects: Resorts
Ive Been Cured by Ostia Path; STEVE ANGLESEY Finds a Fab Family...families on a budget, the beach suburb of Ostia is a great bargain bet. Close to the main...scruffy but the people are really friendly. Ostia itself is gorgeous. The town boomed with...
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BARBARIANS AT THE GATE; SATURDAY ESSAY Politicians Love Threats to National Security. They Allow Them to Cloak Naked Ambition in Patriotism. Here a Historical Novelist Draws Chilling Parallels between the Death of Democracy in Rome and Our Loss of Liberty
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 9, 2006
...peacefully at anchor in its harbour at Ostia, at the mouth of the River Tiber, about...delta. That night in Rome - for which Ostia served as the main port - it must have...particularly well known nowadays, the burning of Ostia was to be as significant a turning-point...
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Eternally Crowded Huge Crowds Expected for Papal Beatification in Rome
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 17, 2011
Subjects: Hotels and motels
...hotels. One off-the-tourist track option is Ostia, a modern, seaside town near the highly recommended ancient Roman ruins of Ostia Antica. Long considered an unremarkable bedroom community, Ostia is now where many Romans go on weekends for...
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Your First Class Ticket to OCEAN'S WORLD
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 22, 2005
...Vineria Reggio. THE DIVERSION AFTER youve seen the Forum, visit Ostia Antica, once a busy port at the mouth of the River Tiber about...Highlights include the citys old entrance, the Porta Romana. www.ostia-antica.org THE HITCH THE licensed white taxis hurtling around...
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Autumn Breaks by Air
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), August 9, 2009
Subjects: Hotels and motels--Spain
...includes: Return flights from Bristol to Rome, Return - airport to hotel transfers, 1 night half board in Ostia staying at the 3 star Hotel Ostia Antica Park, 4 nights half board in Roccaraso staying in the 3 star Hotel Iris, 2 nights half board...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ostia  - 12 results

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Ostia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OSTIA os te , ancient city of Italy, originally at the mouth of the Tiber but now inland as the Tiber delta has grown. It was founded...
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Cardinal , in the Roman Catholic Church
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cardinal bishops are the bishops of seven sees around Rome (Ostia, Velletri, Porto and Santa Rufina, Albano, Frascati, Palestrina...of creation is dean of the college and ex officio bishop of Ostia in addition to his other see. Cardinal priests are mostly archbishops...
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Tiber
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Tiber, especially in Rome, are diked. The silt-laden Tiber continues to extend its delta westward. Ostia Antica, the site of Ostia, the coastal port of ancient Rome, now lies 4 mi (6 km) from the sea. Most of the marshland in the delta...
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Porifera
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...choanocytes. The body is permeated by numerous pores called ostia that open into inhalant canals that lead to the feeding chambers...action of the choanocyte flagella creates a current of water from ostia through the sponge body oscules. The choanocytes filter plankton...
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Lighthouse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Nile; it was lighted by a wood fire and showed smoke by day and a glow by night. The Romans built famous lighthouses in Ostia, Ravenna, and Messina and on both sides of the English Channel. In the United States the tower for the Boston Light on Little...
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