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Warehouse 13 - Season 1 (DVD)
Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams, Simon Reynolds, …
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All 12 episodes from the first season of the American sci-fi
mystery series in which two secret service agents - Pete Lattimer
(Eddie McClintock) and Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) - are deployed in
a top-secret facility where the government has amassed a wealth of
mysterious items linked to the supernatural and occult. The duo is
assigned the unusual job of investigating rumours of new objects
and locating any that have gone missing. Episodes are: 'Pilot',
'Resonance', 'Magnetism', 'Claudia', 'Elements', 'Burnout',
'Implosion', 'Duped', 'Regrets', 'Breakdown', 'Nevermore' and
'MacPherson'.
What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve?
Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of
Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and
milieu in which they originated?
Latin Panegyric brings together sixteen essays focusing on praise
in the Roman Empire and, in particular, on praise of the emperor.
Spanning a century of scholarship, and constituting landmark
studies on different aspects of the largest collection of classical
Latin oratory to survive after Cicero--the Panegyrici Latini--this
collection includes speeches addressed to the emperors Trajan,
Maximian, Constantine, Julian, and Theodosius, and traces three
centuries of oratorical praise-giving in the Roman world. These
influential readings consider textual, rhetorical, literary,
political, and religious matters, and together represent the
evolving landscape of academic attitudes towards praise discourse,
with its strengths and problems, and towards some of the best-known
Roman emperors. With a full introduction by the editor, and with
four essays translated into English for the first time, this
valuable volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives
students of classical literature, history, and rhetoric direct
access to key scholarship.
This is the first monograph in English on the Panegyrici Latini, and the first in any language dedicated to the five speeches of praise from 289 - 307. The study considers how the orators justified, accommodated, and projected changes and related them to the local concerns of the people of Northern Gaul. Detailed analyses of the speeches highlight the literary flair and diplomatic acumen their orators required. As various ideologies and attitudes are charted over the five speeches, panegyric is seen to be a genre of great versatility and potential.
This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of
scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of
Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid
the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome,
and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a
bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the
different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and
appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and
historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical
contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or
genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches
from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the
volume. "Romane Memento" will be of interest to literary critics
and cultural historians of Late Antiquity, but also to
Vergilianists unfamiliar with the literature of the fourth century.
Phillipa James has plucked down and out Duncan McFee from London's
Embankment and installed him in a luxury apartment, purely as a
business arrangement based on Duncan's uncanny resemblance to her
late husband Richard who unfortunately died just prior to his forty
fifth birthday when he would inherit a million pounds.1 woman, 1
man
Double bill of Disney's 'Peter Pan' adventures. The first film, 'Peter Pan' (1953), tells the story of what happens when Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up, visits the Darling family nursery and takes the children on a magical journey to Never Land. When they arrive they become embroiled in an on-going battle between Peter, his friends the Lost Boys, and the wicked Captain Hook, a pirate who has lost his hand and his watch to a hungry crocodile.
In the sequel, 'Return to Never Land' (2001), Wendy Darling is now a grown-up woman with a 12-year-old daughter of her own; but the daughter, Jane, no longer believes her mother's tales about Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, thinking herself too old for stories of fairies and magical lands. So when Captain Hook's pirate ship appears in the sky above London and swoops down to kidnap the cynical young lady, it's fair to say that she has to reconsider her worldview. Held captive in Never Land, Jane discovers that Hook is still out to get Peter Pan - but can she find a way to help Peter avoid the pirate's trap?
The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the
summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius;
both men stood for the first time before the Roman Senators. It was
a moment of high political charge. The Latin speech survives and is
here presented both in the original and with facing English
translation; the introduction and commentary capture the
groundbreaking character of the work and set it in its historical,
rhetorical and literary contexts.
This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists
in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution
to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular
and controversial English poets of the late 20th century. The
chapters are arranged broadly chronologically according to Hughes's
publications, and deal with different aspects of his engagement
with the culture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome,
including translations, original works, classical thought, and
ideologies in his drama and verse. Hughes is revealed as a leading
figure in literary reception of the Classics in 20th century
poetry, a sharply intelligent and sensitive reader of some of the
world's foundational texts.
All 64 episodes from all five seasons of the American sci-fi
mystery show. When two secret service agents, Pete Lattimer (Eddie
McClintock) and Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly), are reassigned to a top
secret government facility they initially perceive it as a
demotion. However, as they become familiar with the contents of
Warehouse 13 - storehouse to a wealth of mysterious items linked to
the supernatural and the occult - the duo reconsider. With the aid
of Claudia Donovan (Allison Scagliotti), a technical whiz-kid, they
apply themselves to the important task of investigating potential
discoveries of new objects and seeking out those that have gone
missing.
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A Christmas Carol (DVD)
George C Scott, Nigel Davenport, Frank Finley, Edward Woodward, Lucy Gutteridge, …
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R252
R222
Discovery Miles 2 220
Save R30 (12%)
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Ships in 10 - 17 working days
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George C. Scott plays the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this version
of the Dickens Christmas classic. Scrooge is a misanthrope
unimpressed by the fuss everyone makes during the festive season.
That is, until his sleep is disturbed one Christmas Eve by the
ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, each of which takes
him on a journey which helps him to open his heart to his fellow
man and to thereby learn the joy of Christmas. Filmed entirely on
location in the historic town of Shrewsbury.
What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve?
Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of
Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and
milieu in which they originated?
Latin Panegyric brings together sixteen essays focusing on praise
in the Roman Empire and, in particular, on praise of the emperor.
Spanning a century of scholarship, and constituting landmark
studies on different aspects of the largest collection of classical
Latin oratory to survive after Cicero--the Panegyrici Latini--this
collection includes speeches addressed to the emperors Trajan,
Maximian, Constantine, Julian, and Theodosius, and traces three
centuries of oratorical praise-giving in the Roman world. These
influential readings consider textual, rhetorical, literary,
political, and religious matters, and together represent the
evolving landscape of academic attitudes towards praise discourse,
with its strengths and problems, and towards some of the best-known
Roman emperors. With a full introduction by the editor, and with
four essays translated into English for the first time, this
valuable volume plots the narratives of Roman praise and gives
students of classical literature, history, and rhetoric direct
access to key scholarship.
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Warehouse 13 - Season 3 (DVD)
Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams, Simon Reynolds, …
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R620
R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
Save R294 (47%)
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Ships in 10 - 17 working days
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All 13 episodes from the third season of the American sci-fi
mystery series. When two secret service agents, Pete Lattimer
(Eddie McClintock) and Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly), are reassigned
to a top-secret government facility they initially perceive it as a
demotion. However, as they become familiar with the contents of
Warehouse 13 - storehouse to a wealth of mysterious items linked to
the supernatural and occult - the duo reconsider. With the aid of
Claudia Donovan (Allison Scagliotti), a technical whiz-kid, they
apply themselves to the important task of investigating potential
discoveries of new objects and seeking out those that have gone
missing. The episodes are: 'The New Guy', 'Trials', 'Love Sick',
'Queen for a Day', '3... 2... 1', 'Don't Hate the Player', 'Past
Imperfect', 'The 40th Floor', 'Shadows', 'Insatiable', 'Emily
Lake', 'Stand' and 'The Greatest Gift'.
This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies
concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire -- the
reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath. Diocletian was an
emperor of unusual ambition, and his reign saw considerable
military success, an experiment in collegiate government, a move
towards provincial capitals away from Rome, a reorganisation of the
administrative machinery of empire and its finances, and a
committed project to persecute the Christians. In Part I, an
introduction to Diocletian and the world of the late third century
is followed by six thematic chapters covering a range of aspects of
government and society under this emperor, including military,
economic, religious and administrative affairs. These chapters
discuss the original sources, highlight their strengths and
weaknesses, and consider the main scholarly approaches to them.
Throughout Part I there are regular cross references to the source
material which is presented in Part II -- this includes literary,
archaeological, artistic, legal, and documentary evidence, as well
as coins and inscriptions. All texts are in English, and there is a
guide to further reading, a full bibliography, some questions for
consideration, a glossary of technical terms, and a brief list of
relevant online resources.
THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Church Treasury
of History, Custom and Folklore, by J. Rogers Rees. To purchase the
entire book, please order ISBN 0766136698.
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