10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAUMACHIES»
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naumachies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
naumachies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
AsWiedemann (1992), 89–90, explains, naumachies were usually elements of
triumphs, not ofmunera. Further, see Joël ... 271, 282, 314; J.C. Golvin and M.
Reddé, 'Naumachies, jeuxnautiques etamphithéâtres', in Domergue etal.(1990)
165– ...
... below, In a large Baflm of Diameter, Such as old Rome: expenfive Luke: did
bear, Where a Paclfick Sea expanded lyes, A Liquid Theater for Naumachies'; _
And were in case of such a Pageant War, Romans in Statue still Spectators are.
... Scbeeprñshiegcl-gevegt , Vriie Infl—gwçgten en sèbnpr-stríjdm , fihee -sírijdt,
sêbecps-speel-gwegt-ofstrzjdt , Wämter-fla . C'e un combat , course , ou éxcrcice
qu'on fait (sir l'eau. Les Anciens ont souvent donné des naumachies au peuple.
4
The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is: With All the Kinds, ...
The s Romans had their feasts, as the Athenians, and Lacedemonians held their
public banquets, in Pritanaeo, Panathena^is, Thesperiis, Phiditiis, plays,
naumachies, places for sea-fights, 4 theatres, amphitheatres, able to contain
seventy ...
5
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
... three triumphal edifices, palaces, walls of cities, bridges, with their ancient
pavements, naumachies, aqueducts, wells dug in rocks, with subterraneous
communications ; baths ot various kinds ; tombs cf different forms, size, and
construction ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1783
... twenty-six temples, of which two are standing and well preserved ; three
triumphal edifices, palaces, walls of cities, bridges with their ancient pavements,
naumachies, aqueducts, wells dug in rocks, with subterraneous communications;
baths ...
Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, 1783
7
THE FRENCH STAGE IN THE XVIIth CENTURY
... one of the particular shows already mentioned is to be found in it, with several
devices that had not previously been thought of, for Lyons is the great rival of
Paris in this form of spectacle : jeux, combats, naumachies* and so on : '
comedies, ...
Thomas Edward Lawrenson, 1957
8
Vox Stellarum, Or, A Loyal Almanack for the Year of Human ...
They alfö betoken great Conreih r8 amongft Men, tedious and malicious Law-fuits
j 0 Slaughters and Bluodlhxd between Armies at 33 Laft Quarter 17 Day, at
Midnight. i9 7 Land; gteat Naumachies or Sea-figIits j c(i tempeftuous and ...
Francis Moore, Tycho Wing, Henry Andrews, 1778
9
ITALY, ITS AGRICULTURE , &C. FROM THE FRENCH OF MONS. ...
They are the remains of palaces, of temples, and naumachies, which Adrian had
constructed. Art has neglected the surrounding ground, it is left to itself, and is
over-grown with grass and shrubs. Groups of trees have had time to grow large ...
Chateauvieux, translated by Edward Rigby, 1819
10
Nowhere is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/dystopias
... que fait Fourier serait restée dans l'esprit du romancier parce que, au sujet des
disputes d'ordre intellectuel, il emploie l'image des "gladiateurs littéraires": "Les
corps savants sont, en quelque façon, condamnés aux Naumachies" (TU, t. II, p.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAUMACHIES»
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