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Books on: roman mythology history

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Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne

Book by Pat Rogers; Oxford University Press, 2005

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Literature And History--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Monarchy In Literature, Mythology In Literature, Pope, Alexander--1688-1744--Knowledge--History, Pope, Alexander--1688-1744--Knowledge--Mythology, Pope, Alexander--1688-1744--Political And Social Views, Pope, Alexander--1688-1744--Windsor-Forest

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...reminiscent of the Pax Romana of Augustus (Life, 202), and the literary work which had most fully enshrined this view of Roman history was of course the Aeneid. There is a further recollection in Popes train of personified vices who will be exiled by...
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Roman Historical Myths: The Regal Period in Augustan Literature

Book by Matthew Fox; Clarendon Press, 1996

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Historical Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Legends--Rome--Historiography, Literature And History--Rome--History, Mythology, Roman, Mythology, Roman, In Literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Rhetoric, Ancient, Rome--Historiography, Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the writer of epic. 87 One can read the panorama of Roman history in 4. 1 and 4. 9 as emblems of Propertius attitude...interest is Rome, and it may be argued that it was Julian mythology, rather than an emphasis on Romes origins, that led...
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Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177

Book by Jane Chance; University Press of Florida, 1994

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Civilization, Medieval--Classical Influences, Criticism, Medieval--History, Ecole De Chartres, Latin Literature--Criticism And Interpretation--History, Literature, Medieval--Roman Influences, Mythology, Classical, In Literature, Mythology--Historiography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...vernacular, concerned with warfare and victory, had led, in the Ecloga Theoduli, to the comparison of pagan mythology with Old Testament history. Notkers use of sources in both commentaries included the Ecloga Theoduli , the first Vatican mythography...
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Roman Invasions: The British History, Protestant Anti-Romanism, and the Historical Imagination in England, 1530-1660

Book by John E. Curran Jr.; University of Delaware Press, 2002

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Catholic Church--In Literature, Catholics In Literature, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, English Literature--Protestant Authors--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History--Invasions--Historiography, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D--Historiography, Literature And History--Great Britain--History--16th Century, Literature And History--Great Britain--History--17th Century, Protestantism And Literature--History--16th Century, Protestantism And Literature--History--17th Century, Romans--Great Britain--Historiography, Rome--In Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...skeletal outlines of the British History which did not linger much...both pres- enting the British History in verse chronicles, taking...British History to classical mythology, even while glossing over...euhemeristic versions of classical mythology, arguing the merits of the...
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German History, 1789-1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich

Book by Eric Dorn Brose; Berghahn Books, 1997

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Conservatism--Germany, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799, Germany--Economic Conditions--19th Century, Germany--Intellectual Life, Germany--Politics And Government--1789-1900, Holy Roman Empire--History--Francis Ii, 1792-1806

Collections: History, Entire Library

...deconstructed" Jesus by placing him in the context of ancient mythology. His conclusion that "the supernatural birth of Christ...4 Cited in Sheehan, German History , 565. 5 Ibid., 566-67. 6 Cited in Toews, 250.

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Journal Articles on: roman mythology history

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The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970

Journal article by Gary W. Mcdonogh; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, The South's Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama and Georgia, 1945-1970 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Souths Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama...Souths Tolerable Alien: Roman Catholics in Alabama...this text brings that history into the present, using...of southern-national mythology (while not promoting...leaders appointed by the Roman church (thereby resonating...
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Romans and Romanticism

Journal article by Marilyn Gaull; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005

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Boadicea, Queen--Portrayals, Classical literature--Influence, English romanticism, 1798-1832--History, Roman Britain, 43-449--Portrayals

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...Sonnet 8, "Temptations from Roman Refinements"
Romans who originally brought it...1586), that the Britons and Romans had assimilated and that the British were "genetically Roman" (Ayres 86), an idea that...Latin texts revising British history to separate it from the Roman...Celtic, Roman, and Christian histories. This comprehensive and materially...
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'Elen of the Hosts': Part Ii of St. Alban and the End of Roman Britain

Journal article by Philip Thornhill; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 41, 2000

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Alban, Saint, Christianity, England, Etymology, History, Roman civilization, Saints

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...character of early Welsh mythology". This character appears...associations with things Roman is simply another by-product...with the material remains of Roman civilisation was particularly strong and many of the Roman roads in Wales have been...
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"Mad" Elves and "Elusive Beauty": Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology [1

Journal article by Dimitra Fimi; Vol. 117, 2006

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Celtic literature--Analysis, Celtic mythology--Analysis, Tolkien, J.R.R.--Works

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...Sketch" of the mythology, where the main...similarities with the history and fate of the...identified as the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons...constructs a pseudo-history of England, which...De Danann in his mythology. If one reconsiders...
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'One Mythology among Many': the Spiritual Odyssey of C.s. Lewis

Journal article by Michael Nelson; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 72, 1996

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Christianity, Lewis, C S, Mythology, Personal profiles, Spirituality, Writers

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...subjects of the crown, not Roman papists. (Consider...dictionary of Norse mythology and seeing the old names...a dying god story in mythology, Lewis told them...intersection of myth and history. Lewis was persuaded...Christians should hold other mythologies and religions in high...

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Magazine Articles on: roman mythology history

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The Triumph of Christianity: Why a Small Apocalyptic Cult Overwhelmed Its Powerful Roman Rivals

Magazine article by Tim Callahan; Skeptic, Vol. 8, 2001

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Bible, History, Jesus Christ, Mythology, Roman civilization

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...if we rewound the tape of Roman history and played it again would our churches...and thus avoided the wrath of their Roman masters. The expectation of the imminent...submissive subjects to the state (Romans 13:1-7). Since all of this was...
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Unpeaceful Symbol: A Look at the History of the So-Called Peace Symbol Reveals That It Originated in Ancient Pagan Rituals, and That Its Use Has Been Primarily as a Token Not of Peace, but of Evil

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 19, May 5, 2003

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Norse mythology, Peace movements--Analysis, Peace movements--History, Roman history, 509-30 BC (Republic), Runes, Signs and symbols--History, Signs and symbols--Religious aspects, Symbolism--Analysis, Symbolism--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Unpeaceful Symbol: A Look at the History of the So-Called Peace Symbol...anything, is the symbols modem history, which can be traced to late...As an investigation of this history reveals, the primary symbolic...Germania, for instance, the Roman historian Tacitus described...augury is still required. The Romans often consulted with occult...
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Mithraic Mysteries and the Cult of Empire: The Cult of the Mithras, a Secret, Oath-Bound Society of Elites, Was at One Time the Power Behind the Throne of the Mighty, and Morally Bankrupt, Roman Empire

Magazine article by Charles Scaliger; The New American, Vol. 26, June 21, 2010

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Cults--History, Mithraism--History, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the cult of Bacchus before the Roman Senate in 186 B.C., "has...to have been structurally a Roman innovation, using certain features of Persian religion and mythology for its own purposes. Unfortunately...prostrated himself before the Roman emperor, he informed Nero that...
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Gladiator and the Myths of Rome: T.P. Wiseman Looks at the Development of the Myth of Ancient Rome, Derived from the Way Its History Has Been Seen

Magazine article by T.P. Wiseman; History Today, Vol. 55, April 2005

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Gladiator (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD--History, Rome, Italy--History, Rome, Italy--Myths and legends

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...Derived from the Way Its History Has Been Seen. by T...attempt to restore the Roman Republic had been snuffed...film The Fall of the Roman Empire. As the camera...beginning of the fall of the Roman Empire ... A great...invites us to admire the Romans, not just look on them...that the Romans had no mythology, but that view can...
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Murder by Misletoe

Magazine article by Carlos Martinez Del Rio, Judy Rice; Natural History, Vol. 105, February 1996

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Botany, Cactus, Chile, Deserts, Ecology, Flowers & plants, Mythology, Parasites

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...Ewald, Natural History, June 1994). Quintrals...Quintrala. The natural history of this mistletoe...long played a role in Roman, Celtic, and Germanic mythology. Druids are said...the Golden Bough of mythology with mistletoe, noting...

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Newspaper Articles on: roman mythology history

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Our Children Are Gods, Legends and Great Lovers; Mum Draws Inspiration from Mythology and History

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), March 14, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Draws Inspiration from Mythology and History. Byline: Gareth Rogers...books on history and mythology. Her first son was named...were all named after Roman, Greek and Egyptian...named after a trio of Roman emperors. Elaine said...
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Venerable Olive Helps Oil Health, Food, Mythology

Newspaper article by Edythe Preet; The Washington Times, January 8, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...oil health, food, mythology by Edythe Preet There...Mediterranean, the olive has a history as old as civilization...had starring roles in mythology. The Egyptians believed...without" summed up the Roman formula for happiness. Romans greased themselves with...gallons annually. The Roman Empire so saturated...
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Traveling the Same Roads as Ancient Roman Tourists, with Similar Trouble

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 23, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...hedonistic resort for Roman imperial lasciviousness...Iliad," with which all Roman tourists were familiar...tourists to travel. The Romans were fascinated with...the well-protected Roman Empire, "to see with...sound, account of the history, mythology, conditions, climate...
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On Canvas: A Roman Holiday in the 1700s; Gods and Tourists: Diana Breaking Cupid's Bow ( 1 1) and Col the Hon William Gordon ( 1 ) by Pompeo Batoni

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 19, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

On Canvas: A Roman Holiday in the 1700s; Gods and Tourists: Diana Breaking Cupids...travel writer HenrySwinburne. Batoni also specialised in scenes from history and mythology, such as the 1761work Diana Breaking Cupids Bow, religious paintings...
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Old Rites for Young Love; Roman Fertility Festival Wilder Than Valentine's

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 11, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Rites for Young Love; Roman Fertility Festival Wilder...assistant professor of history at Kean University in...Valentines Day. "As the Roman Empire and paganism collapse...so much early church mythology. .. It would have had...pseudonyms." Many poems by Roman poets such as Gaius Valerius...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: roman mythology history

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Mythology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MYTHOLOGY Greek,=the...contrasted to history, which concerns...ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish mythologies are the best known, other important mythologies are the Norse...with the Greek mythology a strong concern...
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History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...sophisticated oral histories. African peoples have long relied on oral histories to learn about their...developed its own written histories. In the 1550s the...elaborate account of the history and mythology of the Quiche people...Historiography Greek and Roman Historiography It was...
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Shakespeare, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...depends on a knowledge of Roman comedy, ancient history, and classical mythology. In 1582 Shakespeare married...idyllic romance, while the history plays successfully integrate...dramatic purposes. For his Roman tragedies he used Sir Thomas...
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Italian Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...motifs from classical mythology and contemporary society...and Cellini ); and history ( Guicciardini and Machiavelli...rejection of classical mythology in favor of Christian...psychological realism with Roman Catholic doctrine and...Whitfield, A Short History of Italian Literature...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Boris Godunov (1874) turned to Russian history and literature to produce strictly national...Moore and Carlisle Floyd used American history, legend, and folk music, as reflected...Opera (1972); L. Orrey, A Concise History of Opera (1973); S. Braubard, The...

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