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Author : Patricia Southern
Release : 2015-01-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Story of Roman Bath by : Patricia Southern
Download or read book The Story of Roman Bath written by Patricia Southern. This book was released on 2015-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of Roman Bath
Author : Eleri H. Cousins
Release : 2020-01-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire by : Eleri H. Cousins
Download or read book The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire written by Eleri H. Cousins. This book was released on 2020-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a broad array of archaeology, art, and text, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the Roman sanctuary at Bath.
Author : Peter Davenport
Release : 2021-07-16
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Roman Bath by : Peter Davenport
Download or read book Roman Bath written by Peter Davenport. This book was released on 2021-07-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost three hundred years, excavations have been carried out in Roman Bath. At first these were rare and sporadic and archaeological finds were made by chance. Even fewer were reported. But from the 1860s, deliberate investigations were made and increasingly professional methods employed. The Roman Baths were laid open to view, but little was published. From the 1950s, interest accelerated, professionals and amateurs collaborated, and there was never a decade in which some new discovery was not made. The first popular but authoritative presentation of this work was made in 1971 and updated several times. However, from the 1990s to the present there has been some sort of archaeological investigation almost every year. This has thrown much new and unexpected light on the town of Aquae Sulis and its citizens. In this book, Peter Davenport, having been involved in most of the archaeological work in Bath since 1980, attempts to tell the story of Roman Bath: the latest interim report on the 'Three Hundred Year Dig'.
Author : Stephen Bird
Release : 2007-09-25
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Essential Roman Baths by : Stephen Bird
Download or read book The Essential Roman Baths written by Stephen Bird. This book was released on 2007-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Baths at Bath is the best-preserved ancient baths and temple complex in northern Europe. It is here, at the heart of the World Heritage Site of Bath, that the only thermal springs in the UK emerge from deep underground, bringing health and vitality to this beautiful city. In the first century AD, the Romans chose this site to build the most dramatic suite of public buildings of Roman Britain. At the Roman Baths visitors can see in-situ remains and ornate architectural fragments of the magnificent Temple of Sulis Minerva, goddess of the thermal spring, and the remarkably well-preserved bath-house frequented by residents and pilgrims nearly 2,000 years ago. Also on display are coins and curses thrown into the Sacred Spring as petitions to the presiding goddess, inscriptions recording local people and well-travelled pilgrims, and numerous other treasures unearthed through archaeological excavations over the past 300 years. The Essential Roman Baths is the brand-new authorised guide to the
Author : Victoria Rimell
Release : 2015-06-05
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics by : Victoria Rimell
Download or read book The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics written by Victoria Rimell. This book was released on 2015-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling.
