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The Emperor Domitian
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I loved it! Suspenseful, passionate, breathtaking imagery
A Book to Savor
A Really Bad Soap Opera
The Old Ways
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The Light Bearer
Donna Gillespie
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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Lady of the Light
The White Mare: The Dalraida Trilogy, Book One (The Dalriada Trilogy)
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Here Be Dragons

ASIN: 0425143686

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Quo Vadis for our times! Well, not exactly. It's been awhile since anyone tackled the Roman Empire as entertainingly as Gillespie has done in this book, a nearly-straight historical novel which should please readers of fantasy, too. Germanic Auriane is a combination of the noble, natural savage, and the heroine marked from birth for great deeds. Roman Marcus Julianus is the personification of the highest civilized, republican Roman values. Both are typical and atypical of their societies, fighting for what each believes to be just. Their individual struggles with the clashing Roman and Teutonic cultures are carried out in the Northern forests and in the salons and arena of Rome. Strongly- drawn characters, a setting both familiar and exotic (we all know something of imperial Rome, but very few of us are well-informed about it), a whiff of New-Age ancient mysticism, and a subdued but important romance subplot drive the sweeping novel of Auriane's growth and maturity and Rome's decadence.

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On the day of her birth, Auriane received a mysterious amulet from a priestess-and a doubleedged prophecy of doom and glory. The daughter of a Germanic tribal chieftain, Auriane witnessed unspeakable horrors committed against her people by ruthless invaders. And when tragedy tore her family apart, she took the oath of a warrior, and vowed revenge. Tales of her brilliant swath of conquest carried as far as Rome, to the renowned statesman Marcus Julianus-who felt his destiny intertwined with Auriane's, and wore about his neck an identical amulet

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I loved it! Suspenseful, passionate, breathtaking imagery.......2007-05-18

The Lightbearer is truly an amazing read. Once I began it, I couldn't pull myself away from the spell of Auriane, woman warrior, fighting for the survival of her embattled Germanic tribe against the all powerful Roman army. The characters are so richly drawn, I had an immediate sense of our shared humanity, despite the remoteness of their times. I was captivated by the vivid descriptions of these two worlds, sometimes hauntingly beautiful, sometimes disturbingly barbarous, always artfully rendered through Gillespie's exquisite prose. This is definitely a page turner filled with passion, struggle, heroism, and intriguing myth. With this carefully crafted tale Gillespie enters the arena of master storyteller.

A Book to Savor.......2007-05-18

Every possible element of good writing comes alive in this book. Gillespie recreates a lost time with such powerful detail we can feel we're living there with her characters. Those characters are larger than life, just as they should be in an historical novel of epic scope. Who would want to read about Robin Hood if he couldn't shoot an arrow straight?
But best of all is the plot. I don't *think* I read books for plot, but without a plot, no book really succeeds. It's like the skeleton of a human. You don't want to look at someone's hipbones directly, but without them, there are no graceful dancers. Gillespie's plot is as intricate as a 3,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and that's what drew me in and got me so involved with the characters that I was disappointed to see the book end -- and it's not a short book, either.

A Really Bad Soap Opera.......2007-05-17

As a student of ancient art, archaeology, and history, this book was on my "to read" list for a long time. Sadly, I was unable to get past the first 100 pages and I tried, I really did. I have never NOT finished a book. This book is awful and tries to hard, screaming "amateur." I guess I should have judged this one by the cover...

The storyline is rambling and full of tacky feminism/mysticism. The diologue is overdone with an absurd amount of metaphors and similies (bordering on laughable). The characters have no depth, despite insight into their thoughts at every possible moment. Everyone is so dramatic and over-the-top. I felt no emotional attachement and didn't care what happened to any of them. I also took issue with the over-simplified and stereotyped "good, harmonious tribes of the north" v.s the "evil, war-mongering Romans."

However, it must be said that Gillespie did a lot of research to present historic facts in order to re-create the time period. It's just too bad the novel reads like a really bad soap opera script.

The Old Ways.......2007-05-15

Donna Gillespie is a master of character development and story telling. She also obviously did copious research in the way of life of the ancient Romans and the ancient tribes the Romans conquered. She brilliantly provides a contrast between the way of life, religion and philosphy of two very different cultures as well as the vastly differing status of Roman women versus tribal women. I love that the main female character is a warrior. It's also fun to read descriptions of battles and pagan rituals.

A short and sweet review.......2007-05-10

I'm eating this book up. I supposed to be reading reference books right now due to an upcoming class I'm teaching, but can't put this one down!
It's an epic story about Ancient Rome and the destruction of the tribes of Germania with wonderful characters. I actually came to tears or shouted a "YAY!" at a few points while reading this, and dear readers, that is a rare occurance for me even if I'm enjoying a book.
A richly-embroidered tale of war, vengeance and spiritual transcendence, of palace intrigue and pagan ritual.

The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)

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The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)
Harriet I. Flower
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East (Rome, the Greek World, and the East)

ASIN: 0807830631
Release Date: 2006-11-22

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Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilation of portraits and public inscriptions. Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of the development of this Roman practice—an instruction to forget—from archaic times into the second century A.D.

Early memory sanctions were employed by political families in an effort to preserve their social standing or limit the embarrassment caused by a disgraced relative. Bans in the Late Republic, however, turned into punitive measures used against political rivals. By the imperial period, emperors imposed postmortem disgrace in attempts to control elite dissent or its image, but they could also become subject to such posthumous sanctions themselves. Flower explores Roman memory sanctions against the background of Greek and Hellenistic cultural influence and in the context of the wider Mediterranean world. Combining literary and legal texts, art and archaeology, this richly illustrated study contributes to a deeper understanding of Roman political culture.

Poetry for Patrons: Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

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Poetry for Patrons: Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Ruurd R. Nauta
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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ASIN: 9004108858

The Lives of the Caesars, II, Claudius. Nero. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Vespasian. Titus, Domitian. Lives of Illustrious Men: Grammarians and Rhetoricians. ... Passienus Crispus (Loeb Classical Library)

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The Lives of the Caesars, II, Claudius. Nero. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Vespasian. Titus, Domitian. Lives of Illustrious Men: Grammarians and Rhetoricians. ... Passienus Crispus (Loeb Classical Library)
Suetonius , and J. C. Rolfe
Manufacturer: Loeb Classical Library
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Suetonius, Vol. 1: The Lives of the Caesars--Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula (Loeb Classical Library, No. 31)
Tacitus: Histories, Books IV-V, Annals Books I-III (Loeb Classical Library No. 249)
Tacitus: The Annals, Books IV-VI, XI-XII (Loeb Classical Library No. 312)
Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory (Loeb Classical Library)
Tacitus: Annals 13-16 (Loeb Classical Library No. 322)

ASIN: 0674995651

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Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars. After the dismissal of both men for some breach of court etiquette, Suetonius apparently retired and probably continued his writing. His other works, many known by title, are now lost except for part of the Lives of Illustrious Men (of letters).

Friend of Pliny the Younger, Suetonius was a studious and careful collector of facts, so that the extant lives of the emperors (including Julius Caesar the dictator) to Domitian are invaluable. His plan in Lives of the Caesars is: the emperor's family and early years; public and private life; death. We find many anecdotes, much gossip of the imperial court, and various details of character and personal appearance. Suetonius' account of Nero's death is justly famous.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Suetonius is in two volumes. Both volumes were revised throughout in 1997-98, and a new Introduction added.

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a balanced and helpful portrait of an important Roman figure
This book is a reliable, readable and valuable biography.

The Emperor Domitian
Brian W. Jones
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0415101956

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Was Domitian a despot? Jones argues that the Court rather than the Senate was the centre of Domitian's power and of his cultural ambitions. This is the first biography of the ruler ever to appear in English.

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a balanced and helpful portrait of an important Roman figure.......2006-08-12

The Emperor Domitian presided over a period in which many of the later New Testament texts were written, such as Revelation and the Gospel of John. Close study of the reign of Domitian provides enormous insight into these biblical texts and the situations they addressed for their own readers. Jones' biography of Domitian should be standard reading for anyone seeking to understand the world that generated such claims for Jesus as "savior of the world" (John 4) and "Lord and God" (John 20), both attributed to Domitian. One of the great strengths of Jones' book is its placing of Seutonius' own "Twelve Caesars" in historical context. Many previous interpretations of the lives of the caesars took Suetonius as a reporter, rather than as the imperial propagandist for his patron that he was.

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This book is a reliable, readable and valuable biography........1998-08-05

When it was published in 1992 this book was the first significant scholarly biography of the emperor Domitian (ruled AD 81-96) since 1894. The author is an Associate Professor and a leading specialist in Flavian political and prosopographical history, and has produced a very reliable, readable work that is a critical and valuable interpretive synthesis of the considerable modern scholarship relating to Domitian. The study is organized thematically and with a very solid prosopographical approach. The first chapter examines the social and political rise of Domitian's family, his early life and role under his father Vespasian and brother Titus (both emperors). The next two chapters provide a detailed examination of Domitian's court and his relationship with his courtiers. These are then followed by two chapters on Domitian's financial, administrative and provincial policies. Chapters 6 and 7 examine the major wars of Domitian's reign and his military and foreign policies.! After these there are two chapters on the senatorial and equestrian aristocracy during Domitian's reign, and his relationship with them and other policies and problems. The conclusion completes the study with detailed end-notes and an exhaustive bibliography. The three indices (on persons, ancient authors and general subjects) at the end of the book are very useful and effective. For serious scholars of this period this biography is an indispensable work. A more recent biography of Domitian with a psychological approach ('Domitian: Tragic tyrant') is in many ways simply based upon the present study.

Statius and the Silvae. Poets, Patrons and Epideixis in the Graeco-Roman World (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 9) (Arca, 9)

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Statius and the Silvae. Poets, Patrons and Epideixis in the Graeco-Roman World (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 9) (Arca, 9)
Alex Hardie
Manufacturer: Francis Cairns Publications
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ASIN: 0905205138

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“This book is a creative and timely contribution to scholarship on the Silvae. H. amasses an impressive array of evidence which will be of value to anyone concerned with poetry or with rhetoric in the early empire.” (Classical Review 34 (1984) 190-92)

Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of "occasional" poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No accurate reading of the Silvae can be made without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu.

This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the conditions of work for writers, their opportunities for advancement in the Greek and Roman worlds - both in the Hellenistic period and in the first century A.D. In this setting, display oratory and poetry are shown to have developed in parallel and to have had a profound mutual influence. Further chapters consider Statius' performances as a Neapolitan poet at Rome, his portrayal of his own society and his friends, and his attitudes to his Latin predecessors.

Literary patronage, both imperial and private, is a vital element in Statius' poetic career, and Hardie goes on to investigate the identity and social standing of the addressees of the Silvae. He also considers the career of the contemporary epigrammatist Martial in comparison to that of Statius. Many essential features of Flavian taste emerge from these studies.

Large-scale interpretations of individual poems are offered throughout this volume, making many new suggestions about both points of detail and the overall significance of the major poems in the Silvae.

Statius and the Silvae is an important contribution to the debate on the relationship between poetry and rhetoric, and to the understanding of how society and literature interconnected in the Flavian age.

Five Roman emperors: Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, A.D. 69-117

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Five Roman emperors: Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, A.D. 69-117
Bernard W Henderson
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
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Domitian and the Senatorial Order: A Prosopographical Study of Domitian's Relationship With the Senate, A.D. 81-96 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 132)

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Domitian and the Senatorial Order: A Prosopographical Study of Domitian's Relationship With the Senate, A.D. 81-96 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 132)
Brian W. Jones
Manufacturer: Amer Philosophical Society
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ASIN: 0871691329

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A book for many purposes and readers

Domitian: Tragic Tyrant (Batsford)
Pat Southern
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415165253

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A book for many purposes and readers.......2000-10-07

This book is a must read for those who enjoy detailed biographies. The author is constantly using ancient sources and than attempts to distinguish-with much skill-on the validity of these sources. The book is sure to answer any questions you may have on this person. The book is not only successful biography but it is also good at introducing the facts of the time in which Domitian lived. Its worth the read and it could be used for study purposes or for pure interest reasons. I'am not a person who is too into history, but I enjoyed it very much.

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The Roman Actor (RSC Classics)
Phillip Massinger
Manufacturer: Nick Hern Books
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Women Beware Women: And Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

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