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TY - BOOK. T1 - Building in Words. T2 - The Process of Construction in Latin Literature. AU - Reitz-Joosse, Bettina. PY - 2021. Y1 - 2021. N2 - Building in Words explores the relationship between text and architecture in the Roman world from the perspective of architectural process.
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- New York
- English
- Oxford University Press
Jun 21, 2023 · BETTINA REITZ-JOOSSE, BUILDING IN WORDS: THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION IN LATIN LITERATURE (Classical culture and society). New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 271, illus. isbn 978019761068. US$99.00. - Volume 113
As far as gigs go, this show, which featured several songs that would ultimately appear on the band’s first album, like “Communication Breakdown,” “Dazed And Confused” and “You Shook Me,” paled in comparison to the marathon runs they would undertake at the Forum in Los Angeles or Earls Court outside of London in the years to come, but the momentousness of the occasion can’t be ...
- 59 min
An orator, according to his mentor and older contemporary Cicero, must aim for an “apta compositio” in seeking to give his words a “well-fitted structure” (De oratore.3.200). Neither Roman author figures with any importance in Bettina Reitz-Joosse’s recent Building in Words: The Process of Construction in Latin Literature.
- Indra McEwen
Mar 23, 2017 · In a remarkable feat of philological reconstruction, Hans Lamers and Bettina Reitz-Joosse have ‘excavated’ a real text that completes the Foro’s mise-en-scène: a Codex, written in Latin, encased in the base of the Mussolini obelisk. Composed by the classicist Giuseppe Amatucci, the text presents a heroic narrative of Fascism from its origins roots in the First World War to its tenth ...
- Joshua Arthurs
- Joshua.Arthurs@mail.wvu.edu
- 2017
Faculty of Arts. Telephone: +31 50 36 34905. E-mail: b.l.reitz-joosse@rug.nl. I studied Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA 2007, MSt 2008) and I hold a PhD (2013) from Leiden University. After postdoctoral fellowships at Leiden, the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR), and the University of Pennsylvania, I joined the Groningen ...
This chapter investigates Roman imperial discourse around glassmaking and glassblowing. An analysis of several literary texts which depict these processes (by Pliny the Elder, Mesomedes of Crete, and an anonymous poet of the 3rd century CED) and of a visual representation of glassblowing on an oil lamp highlights several key elements of the Roman discourse surrounding the creation of glass ...
