The Mute Stones Speak

The Mute Stones Speak

Author: Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780393301199

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"MacKendrick writes so enthusiastically that all laymen who have a serious interest in scholarship and antiquity will delight in following his story." --New York Times Book Review


The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections

Author: John Walsh

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1997-12-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0892364769

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Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty


Returns to Pompeii

Returns to Pompeii

Author: Shelley Hales

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9789170421839

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This volume presents a series of case studies that trace the ways in which audiences across Europe have attempted to return to Pompeii by emulating its interior decorations since the city?s rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. As such, it is about both the impact of Pompeian antiquity on the present and the reception in the present of that antique past, exploring the variety of ways in which Pompeian domestic space and decoration have been revived (and for what purposes and audiences). The contributions to the volumes compare the ways in which Pompeian wall decorations were interpreted and adapted, given new context and put to serve new social and political purposes, both close to their place of discovery, in the Kingdom of Naples, and in the far-off European periphery, represented by Denmark and Sweden.


Archives & Excavations

Archives & Excavations

Author: Ilaria Bignamini

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Archives and Excavations aims to stimulate a new approach to the history of excavation by drawing attention to a vast and important area of research that has been neglected for almost a century.


A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid

Author: John F. Miller

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1118876180

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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history of Ovidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power of Ovid’s poetry into modern times.


Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations

Author: R. C. Bell

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0486145573

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This encyclopedic volume provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.