Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor
I read his trilogy (A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, The Broken Road) which cover him walking from Holland to Istanbul as an 18 year old in 1933. If you have never read anything by him try A Time of Gifts. His writing is incredible.
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I'm not really into fantasy stuff, but anything by Mark Lawrence is worth reading, especially the Prince, Emperor, King etc of thorns.
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Originally posted by Halo Jones View PostCurrently redoing the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan on book 5 of 13Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by original PM View PostGood book - as are the other 2 in the series.
Currently reading Immortal by Nick lloyd...
Although I have kindle unlimited so generally plenty of choice but not so many new ones.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostI'm currently plowing my way through REAMDE <again> to refresh my memory before i tackle FALL.
I do like Neal Stephenson's books.
Seven Eves is also good and apparently they're making a film of it.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View PostThis was a real eye-opener for me. For my 50th birthday some years ago a present to myself was to have a private tour of the Uffizi gallery from a local expert on Italian Renaissance Art. We had a long discussion about symbolism in medieval paintings. It sounds boring but it really wasn't. To summarise; there were no newspapers and most people couldn't read. One of the primary ways of passing messages on to the general population was through paintings and sculpture - symbolism in art, whether it was in the Church or elsewhere. We looked at many paintings and I was amazed by the number of messages that were in plain sight once you started to look closely (aided by the local expert naturally). This included subversive, religious and political messages - and also sight gags. Fascinating.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Gibbon View PostVisual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Gibbon View PostVisual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice.
The Rise of Christianity (subtitled either A Sociologist Reconsiders History or How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries, depending on the edition), is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity, from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the (supposed) time of Jesus to the majority religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later.
Both major sources in my just completed Masters Dissertation on the mosaics in Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Edward N. Luttwak
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third CenturyLeave a comment:
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Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice.
The Rise of Christianity (subtitled either A Sociologist Reconsiders History or How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries, depending on the edition), is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity, from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the (supposed) time of Jesus to the majority religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later.
Both major sources in my just completed Masters Dissertation on the mosaics in Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostIs this really the most recent Currently Reading thread?
Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin - seriously hard science fiction, set in China.
Currently reading Immortal by Nick lloyd...
Although I have kindle unlimited so generally plenty of choice but not so many new ones.Leave a comment:
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