On December 9, 1717, German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born. Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art.
On September 23, 63 BC, Gaius Octavius aka Imperator Caesar Divi F. Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire and first Emperor was born. The Roman Empire as a follow up of the former Roman Republic existed for almost four centuries, before it was divided up into Western and Eastern Roman Empire. While the western port deceased to exist in the 5th century AD, the eastern part continued to prosper for almost a millenium until the Ottoman invasion in the 15th century.
On September 20, 450 AD, the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains also referred to as the Battle of Chalons took place. A coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila faced each other in a decisive battle that should decide the fate of Europe and the whole Western civilization...
On August 12, 30BC, ancient Egyptian pharao Cleopatra VII Philopator, known to history simply as Cleopatra, passed away under myserious circumstances. After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, she aligned with Mark Antony in opposition to Caesar's legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known as Augustus). To this day, Cleopatra remains a popular figure in Western culture. Her legacy survives in numerous works of art and the many dramatizations of her story in literature and film.
On July 19, 64 AD, the Great Fire of Rome (Latin: Magnum Incendium Romae) occurred and continued burning until July 26 during the reign of emperor Nero. According to the Roman historian Tacitus three of the 14 city districts were completely burned down, in seven districts only debris and rubble was left from the former buildings, and only 4 districts were not affected.
On April 27, 1737, English historian and Member of Parliament Edward Gibbon was born. His most famous work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose as well as for its scientific historic accuracy, which made it a model for later historians.
On April 18, 1506, the foundation stone of the new St. Peter's Basilica in Rome took place under the guidance of Pope Julius II. A succession of popes and architects followed in the next 120 years, their combined efforts resulting in the present building. Today, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and remains one of the largest churches in the world.
On February 17, 1600, Domonican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer Giordano Bruno was burned on the stake after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings.
On December 7, 1598, Italian architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born. He is considered to be the leading sculptor of the baroque age. In addition he designed buildings, painted, wrote plays, and designed metalwork and stage sets. Whenever you are be in Rome, for sure you will find yourself somewhere in the neighborhood of Bernini's work.
La exposición Romanorum Vita es un viaje por la vida cotidiana de los romanos. Información de la exposición, propuestas educativas, rutas turísticas y actividades interactivas.
On this very day in the year 47 BC the Roman dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar won the battle of Zela against Pharnaces II. king of Pontus. As the Roman victory was won rather quickly, Caesar wanted to emphasize that very fact by the brevity and conciseness of his report sent to the senate and people of Rome. He only wrote three little words:
"Veni, Vidi, Vici."
Yovisto Blogpost about Diana E. E. Kleiner, who in her lectures explores the civic, commercial, and religious buildings of Pompeii as part of her lecture on 'Roman Architecture'. She is an art historian known worldwide for her expertise on the art and architecture of the ancient Romans. Watch her impressive Yale lecture series on "Roman Architecture" http://www.yovisto.com/lecture/4288
An electronic corpus of all Greek and Latin texts found on papyri, ostraca or wooden tablets which have been published in discrete volumes or in series
A ready bibliography of all monographic volumes, both current and out-of-print, of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic documentary texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets. Texts published in periodicals as journal articles are mainly excluded, but with a number of exceptions based on the extent of the edition or the presence of full indexes. Greek texts published separately are regularly republished (but without translation or commentary) in successive volumes of Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten (SB), the volumes of which are included here. A separate Sammelbuch has now begun the republication of Coptic texts (SB Kopt.). Many volumes containing documentary texts publish literary and subliterary texts as well, and such volumes are of course included, together with volumes of the same series that are exclusively literary. No systematic attempt to include all exclusively literary and subliterary volumes has been made
Sources philosophiques primaires de l'Antiquité des Présocratiques à la fin du VIe siècle de notre ère, en fournissant pour chaque document une liste des éditions, traductions, commentaires et instruments divers utiles pour une recherche de premièr
Recensement international des documents antiques (-> 8e s.) portant des représentations mythologiques ou religieuses. Compl. de la publ. imprimée (1972-). Couvre France, Europe centrale, bassin méditerranéen
Des cartes géographiques interactives des différentes régions ou provinces du monde gréco-romain donnant accès à des bibliographies et webographies thématiques
The largest Speculum collection ..... 994 prints (engravings, etchings, and a few woodcuts) brought together by a 19th-c. collector ..... organized around a core of prints published by Antonio Lafreri but also includes many other related prints
[accès réservé] Éd. en ligne du Neue Pauly : Enzyklopädie der Antike. Das klassische Altertum und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte (J. B. Metzler, 1996-2003, 18 vol.), en allemand. Liens vers la version anglaise
[accès réservé] Traduction en anglais du Neue Pauly, en cours de publication (nov. 2008 : Antiquity, A-S ; Classical tradition, A-O). Liens vers la publication en allemand. « Classical antiquity, i.e. Greek and Roman culture in all aspects — language and economics, family and politics, law and religion, literature and art, society and philosophy — constitutes the core of this encyclopaedia. Here (classical) antiquity is conceived of as an epoch of the cultural sphere of the Mediterranean, early Greek culture as a culture on the fringes of the ancient Near East, the 'End of Antiquity' as the separation of the Byzantine, Germanic and Islamic cultures from their Mediterranean connection. Therefore, the chronological scope of the 'Antiquity' volumes of the NEW PAULY ranges from the 'Aegean Koine' (middle of the 2nd millennium BC) to the formation of early medieval Europe (AD 600 to 800).»
Base d'objets du Deutsches Archäologisches Institut et de l'institut d'archéologie de l'Université de Cologne. Numérisation de nombreuses collections photographiques sur l'archéologie et l'histoire de l'Antiquité méditerranéenne. Le site héberge en outre quelques collections extérieures. Accès au site du DAI Rom (numérisation de la collection de photographies). Livres numérisés (dont 300+ des 16e-18e s.), avec projets de liens entre texte et documentation iconographique (iDAI.bookbrowser). Intégration prévue avec les collections numérisées du Perseus Project (projet Hellespont)
The Nolli Web Site presents the 1748 Nolli Map of Rome as a dynamic, interactive, hands-on tool to study Architecure, Urban Theory, Cartography, and more. The public now has access to cataloged information about the map in both written and graphical form. The map not only provides rich information, but it is updated with new data over time to embrace expanding knowledge.
ROME is an set of open source Java tools for parsing, generating and publishing RSS and Atom feeds. The core ROME library depends only on the JDOM XML parser and supports parsing, generating and converting all of the popular RSS and Atom formats including RSS 0.90, RSS 0.91 Netscape, RSS 0.91 Userland, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0. You can parse to an RSS object model, an Atom object model or an abstract SyndFeed model that can model either family of formats.
funny as hell, two letters describing how european men are perceived by american women (the first), and how american women are perceived by european men (the second).
Dr. Harald Sack;
Video: Informatik der digitalen Medien
Vorlesung 01, Wintersemester 2005/2006
zum Thema Mediengeschichte, Entwicklung der Schrift, Buchdruck, Telekommunikation
L. Gasperini, und S. Mclean. (0301 2001)NT: Paper presented at the Global Junior Challenge (Rome, Italy, December 3-4, 2000).; LV: Available online; EM: 2003.