10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMPHITHEATRAL»
Discover the use of
amphitheatral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
amphitheatral and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective After Two Millennia
Josephus, who had strong Italian and Roman connections and relied upon
Augustan sources, belonged to and understandably reflects this age before the
use of the adjective "amphitheatral" and its noun had become more narrowly
defined.
Avnēr Rabbān, Kenneth G. Holum, 1996
2
Proceedings of the American Oriental Society: 1866/67
It is on the cliff or wall of an amphitheatral opening, partly quarried, and, as I think,
partly natural, and which has doubtless been used as sorne kind of theatre. " The
head is carved on a projecting knob of limestone, and Mr. Svoboda's ...
American Oriental Society, 1866
3
Geological Survey professional paper
In it there may be seen from a distance several of the great amphitheatral basins
which formerly contained ice. When examined in detail these basins are seen to
contain many well-developed rock streams and rock slides; they also hold ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), Geological Survey (U.S.). Geographic Names Information Management, 1932
4
Physiography and Quaternary Geology of the San Juan ...
In it there may be seen from a distance several of the great amphitheatral basins
which formerly contained ice. When examined in detail these basins are seen to
contain many well-developed rock streams and rock slides; they also hold ...
Wallace Walter Atwood, Kirtley Fletcher Mather, 1932
5
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
... the Mill B glacier was between 500 and 600 feet. The rock surfaces in the basin
of Mill B (No. 41) are notably striated, grooved, and polished, and the postglacial
work is insignificant. In the amphitheatral basin the rock in the bottom is for the ...
6
Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire
Amphitheatral entertainers were those who engaged in combat with humans and
beasts, initially in the architectural ancestors of the Italian amphitheater, and later
in all manner of building, throughout the Roman world. We can gain some ...
David Stone Potter, D. J. Mattingly, 1999
7
Hospital and Asylum Architecture in England, 1840-1914: ...
For the larger teaching hospitals, the demonstration role for students was
considered a priority, and tiered, amphitheatral rooms - sometimes seating
hundreds - were incorporated.746 Examples include St Thomas's (1871), where
the two ...
Jeremy Reginald Buckley Taylor, 1991
8
Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club
rock-steps, and associated phenomena, are eloquent testimony of a by-gone
glacial episode. COTTESWOLD HILLS Having explained the probable origin of
certain cwms in Snowdonia, and the more opened-out amphitheatral hollows in
the ...
Southwest of the White Mountains, across Beaver Valley, bare even-topped
ridges, nearly uniform in height, form the background of the amphitheatral area
around the bend of Beaver Creek and extend northward to become laterally
adjacent ...
10
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Surviving dedicatory inscriptions refer to the building as a stadion amphitheatron
leukolithon, literally an “amphitheatral (i.e., surrounded by seating) stadium of
white stone” (Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes4.845, 861).
Paul Christesen, Donald G. Kyle, 2013
