SABINES

sāˈbīnz, ancient people of central Italy, centered principally in the Sabine Hills, NE of Rome. Not much dependable information on them can be gathered. They were probably Oscan-speaking and therefore may be classed among the Sabelli. From the earliest days there was a Sabine element in Rome (the story of the rape of the Sabine women to supply wives for the womanless followers of Romulus is a legend explaining this fact); many Roman religious practices are said to have Sabine origins. Rome was involved in numerous wars with the inland Sabines; Horatius is supposed to have defeated them in the 5th cent. b.c., and Marcus Curius Dentatus conquered them in 290 b.c. The Sabines became (268) Roman citizens. The Samnites were possibly a branch of the Sabines.

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books on: Sabines  - 784 results

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Tudor Family Portrait
Book by Barbara Winchester; J. Cape, 1955
Subjects: England--Social Life And Customs
...of Thomas and Margaret Saunders. Of Sabines birth and early years little is known...Anthony Cave , together made up the sum of Sabines six brothers, and she had five sisters...and amusing things to do, it was not in Sabines nature to sit for hours mewed up with...
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Ancient Legends of Roman History
Book by Ettore Pais, Mario E. Cosenza; Swan Sonnenschein, 1906
Subjects: Rome--History
...of the fifth century, when a band of Sabines, by establishing themselves on the Quirinal...Romulus, during the struggle with the Sabines, was struck by a rock while standing...living even after the wars against the Sabines. According to some, he perished instead...
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From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples of the Central Apennines
Book by Emma Dench; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Apennines (Italy)--History, Greece--Ethnic Relations, Italic Peoples--Cultural Assimilation, Italic Peoples--Italy--Apennines, Rome--Ethnic Relations
...late Latin Sabellus, a collective for Sabines and Samnites. A map is given of conventionally...various connections between Samnites, Sabines, and Picentes. 1 In contrast, a tradition...Republic, the connection between Romans and Sabines was of considerable importance. 3 The...
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Acoustics and Architecture
Book by Paul E. Sabine; McGraw-Hill, 1932
Subjects: Architectural Acoustics, Sound
...source of sound. FIG. 13.--W. C. Sabines experimental arrangement for studying...for a long time. Decrease of Intensity. Sabines Treatment. After the sound has been...showed in a theoretical derivation of Sabines reverberation equation 1 that...
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A Companion to Latin Studies
Book by John Edwin Sandys; Cambridge University Press, 1913
Subjects: Art--Rome, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Latin Philology, Rome--Antiquities, Rome--Description And Travel
...27 30-35 The Sabines, patricians. Evidence from the flamines...Curius Dentatus, the conqueror of the Sabines, thus forming the famous falls of Terni...the Adriatic and the Umbrians and the Sabines. In the north, the Greek colony of Ancona...
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Nudity a la Grecque in 1799
Journal article by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, David, Jacques Louis, Nudity, Sexes
...double move of Davids Intervention of the Sabines of 1799 (Fig. 2). If Davids martyr portraits...fractured society. As daughters of the Sabines and wives of the Romans, the Sabine women...has argued that the Intervention of the Sabines ultimately contains the threat posed by...
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Delécluze's Response to Delacroix's Scenes from the Massacres at Chios (1824)
Journal article by Margaret MacNamidhe; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Art, Chios, Critics, History, Painting
...the years in which David embarked on the Sabines, as well as the painting he conceived...reflected Delecluzes own views of the Sabines and the Leonidas.66 There can be little...in the artists creative dynamic. In the Sabines (Fig. 8), the peacemaker Hersilia plunges...
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Theater and Its Social Uses. Machiavelli's Mandragola and the Spectacle of Infamy [*]
Journal article by Jane Tylus; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: European drama--Renaissance, 1450-1600, Machiavelli, Niccolo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ovid--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rape--Influence, Theater--History
...suggesting the importance of the rape of the Sabines for thinking about Renaissance theater...insures, as we will see, that the "innocent" Sabines are subject not to their own desires but...very different from t he recalcitrant Sabines, Ovid suggests that the theater is the...
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Time, Space, and Illusion: between Keats and Poussin
Journal article by Lilach Lachman; Comparative Literature, Vol. 55, 2003
Subjects: Keats, John (1795-1821), Literature, Painting, Poets, Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665), Visual artists
...For instance, the yellow of the abducted Sabines cloak at the center is repeated in the...echoed in the shape and movement of the Sabines hair on the right.15 All this creates...spectator?17 Are we to identify with the Sabines themselves, with the terror in their faces...
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Marriage, Sexual Pleasure, and Learned Brides in the Wedding Orations of Fifteenth Century Italy *
Journal article by Anthony F. D'Elia; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Kings and rulers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Kings--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Marriage customs and rites--15th century AD, Marriage customs--15th century AD, Marriage--History
...women and the ensuing war between the Sabines and the Romans: "through marriage, the most inimical Sabines became allies." (74) The violence of this...marriage, orators cite the rape of the Sabines, the marriage of Caesars daughter Julia...
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The Republic Matures: The Roman Republic Was Not Built in a Day, but Was the Product of Generations of Reform and Even Some Serious Reverses
Magazine article by Steve Bonta; The New American, Vol. 20, October 18, 2004
Subjects: Political history--Analysis, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--History
...chest covered with battle scars, the wild-haired old man announced that he had fought bravely for Rome during the war with the Sabines. Then, to gasps of indignation, he displayed his back to his audience. It was covered with hideous scars and wounds, some of...
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"Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile" the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. February 1-April 24, 2005
Magazine article by James Panero; New Criterion, Vol. 23, June 2005
Subjects: David, Jacques-Louis--Exhibitions
...Monument to the Third International. Just as for a feminist, Sabines is a justification of heteronormative rape. As for the gender...succession of pictures leading up to The Death of Marat and the Sabines, and the difficulty in viewing with a fresh eye the paintings...
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The Origin of American Studies in Britain: One Man's View
Magazine article by Esmond Wright; Contemporary Review, Vol. 265, December 1994
Subjects: History--Study and teaching, United States history--Study and teaching
...Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution (Westport, Conn., 1984), a thoroughly researched supplement to Sabines pathfinding collection of one hundred and forty years ago. I surveyed the field in an article on The Loyalists, in H. C. Allen...
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How to Start an Avant-Garde
Magazine article by Robert B. Ray; The Antioch Review, Vol. 52, Winter 1994
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Criticism and interpretation, Avant-garde--Criticism and interpretation, Criticism--Analysis, Impressionism (Art)--Criticism and interpretation
...for miniatures and copies for paintings on porcelain, worse still, as an old fogey who sees some merit in Davids Rape of the Sabines. One clutches at oneself, so to speak, in terror, one runs ones hand over ones stomach or ones skull, wondering if one has...
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Small Things Considered
Magazine article by Elizabeth Helfgott; Film Comment, Vol. 40, May-June 2004
Subjects: Film criticism, Film festivals, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures--International aspects, Movie criticism, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--International aspects
...criticize and punish herself. But Meier never loses compassion for her character. Indeed, their is something thrilling about Sabines toughness and single-minded determination, traits more often depicted, and accepted, in boys than in girls, and the director...
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Resort 'Best for Bird Watching
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), September 5, 2005
Resort Best for Bird Watching. NEW Brighton has been named one of the best places in the UK for birdwatching. There is no better place to view species such as Leachs storm petrel or Sabines gull because of poor weather and strong winds, according to Birdwatch magazine
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Griffin and Sabine and Matthew and Isabella
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 3, 2004
Subjects: Bantock, Nick
...readers demands. Like its predecessor, "Sabines Notebook" and "The Golden Mean" were runaway...he conjured out of his loneliness. In "Sabines Notebook," the mystery deepens as the...Australia and a failed attempt to reach Sabines home in the Sicmon Islands the latter...
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Griffin and Sabine and Matthew and Isabella
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 6, 2004
Subjects: Bantock, Nick
...readers demands. Like its predecessor, "Sabines Notebook" and "The Golden Mean" were runaway...he conjured out of his loneliness. In "Sabines Notebook," the mystery deepens as the...Australia and a failed attempt to reach Sabines home in the Sicmon Islands the latter...
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On Country Matters
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 9, 2004
...biggest influxes of Leachs petrels in recent years was still tak-ing place. To make matters worse, the Leachs were joined by Sabines gulls, balearic shear waters and four spe-cies of skua. Leachs, as any sea watcher can tell you, really is Merseysides special...
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New Fiction
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 27, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews
...of nanny Anna, and Oliviers gradual seduction of her while Madison is too busy flirting with his best friend to notice. With Sabines vanishing, Anna becomes far more than just another of her fathers affairs. Muir writes a subtle and untouristy Paris, whether...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sabines  - 15 results

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Sabines
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SABINES sa binz, ancient people of central Italy, centered principally...origins. Rome was involved in numerous wars with the inland Sabines; Horatius is supposed to have defeated them in the 5th...and Marcus Curius Dentatus conquered them in 290 b.c. The Sabines became (268) Roman citizens. The Samnites were possibly...
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Quirinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUIRINUS kwir in s, in Roman religion, an early god, possibly of war. Worshiped originally by the Sabines, he was one of the chief gods of ancient Rome, associated with Jupiter and Mars. In the late republic he was identified with Romulus...
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Dentatus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Manius Curius Dentatus)denta t s; ma ne s kyoor e s, d. 270 b.c., Roman general. As consul (290) he defeated the Samnites, Sabines, and Lucani; in his third consulship (275) he drove Pyrrhus from Italy. Many stories are told of his simplicity and incorruptible...
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Tribe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TRIBE Lat., tribus : the tripartite division of Romans into Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans, a social group bound by common ancestry and ties of consanguinity and affinity; a common language and territory...
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Tarpeia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARPEIA tarpe y , in Roman legend, a Roman woman who betrayed her city to the Sabines for what they wore on their left arms (their gold bracelets). As they entered Rome they crushed her under a mound of shields, which...
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