![]() But all of them are essential to a well-rounded understanding of the intricate relationship between the world of ancient Rome and the world of the movies. Aldrete of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, these 24 captivating lectures offer you the chance to experience this story like never before, incorporating the latest historical insights that challenge our previous notions of Romes decline. Some films you may already be a fan of other films you might have only heard of in passing. You'll investigate portrayals of ancient Roman life on the big screen and small screen learn how to tease out fact from fiction in some of Hollywood's most stunning spectacles and deepen your appreciation for films that, when made right, can be thrilling time machines into the past. Packed with insights into both history and filmmaking, this series immerses you in the glory and grandeur (and, sometimes, the folly) of classic and contemporary films featuring over 50 years of cinematic talent, including directors like Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott and actors such as Elizabeth Taylor and Russell Crowe. In these 12 lectures, an award-winning historian gives you a front-row look at the great movies that have shaped ancient Rome's role in popular culture and memory. ![]() How have films like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, or even a satire like Monty Python's Life of Brian created our popular perceptions of ancient Roman history? In what ways have they led us astray? And why, despite the occasional box-office flop, do movies set in ancient Rome still have the power to captivate us, and to turn each of us into theater-going history buffs? ![]()
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![]() The Compact 845 inspired me to audition some new LPs and a few old ones. The Compact 845 ran hot, and so did the music that flowed from its mighty triodes. Music had energy, speed, dynamics, punch, and depth. ![]() Against this backdrop, music blossomed, consistently creating a you-are-there, live-performance quality that made my DeVore Fidelity O/96s resemble Quad ESL-57s. The 845 wowed me with its immense soundstage, which I attribute partly to its aforementioned silence: the long decay of reverb tails contrasting that outer-spaceblackness each enhancing the other. I had to push my reference DeVore Fidelity O/96 loudspeakers back 6" to optimize coherence and clarity once I did that, the system sang. It was a natural fit for the Mastersound. I began my audition with the two-way DeVore Fidelity O/96 loudspeaker (footnote 1), a rich, warm, incisive speaker that uses a 1" silk-dome tweeter and a 10" paper-cone woofer and sounds good with every amplifier and in every room I've heard it in. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alex is a retired olympic medalist figure skater who’s floundering and broke. Sergei and Alex have been best friends since Sergei was billetted in Alex’s house for juniors. Bonus points: If you’re looking for an MC with an amicable divorce, I found one for ya! (Daniel’s ex moves with him so they can keep co-parenting equally.) Skater Boy by A.E. But Daniel’s career is dependent on his team winning, and Micah can’t find aquarium jobs just anywhere. His risk is rewarded: it turns out that his childhood bestie still lives in Miami (he works with the marine mammals at the aquarium!), and Micah isn’t opposed to picking up where they left off-first kiss and unrealized romantic dreams finally realized?-now that they’re back in the same city. After winning the Stanley Cup, Daniel wonders what’s next for his career, so when an offer comes to be an influential veteran for the struggling Miami team, he takes it. Trade Deadline by Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn ![]() ![]() ![]() She examines the rituals honoring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography, as well as the meaning of the snakes often depicted alongside lares in paintings of gardens. ![]() She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors-gods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. Weaving together a wide range of evidence, Flower sets forth a new interpretation of the much-disputed nature of the lares. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated book, the first to focus on the lares, Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion. ![]() These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. ![]() ![]() Improvise: Scene From the Inside Out by Nick Napier Kurt Vonnegut (author of Slaughterhouse Five and more) lecture about The Shapes of Stories Gladys the Magic Chicken by Adam Rex illustrator Adam RexĮl Chupacabras by Adam Rubin with illustrator Crash McCreery ![]() High Five by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri Jon Scieszka, former National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and New York Times bestselling author best known for picture books with illustrator Lane Smith, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and more. Klutz Books, like Juggling For the Complete Klutz, created by John CassidyĮxploratorium books like The Art of Curiosity The Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson (find the first collection, The Far Side, here)Ĭalvin and Hobbes, cartoon by Bill Watterson (check out the first collection, Calvin and Hobbes) ![]() ![]() Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: ![]() Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify First Draft Episode #342: Adam RubinĪdam Rubin, New York Times bestselling picture book author known for Dragons Love Tacos, Those Darn Squirrels!, Robo-Sauce and more with illustrator Daniel Salmieri, about his new collection of middle grade short stories, The Ice Cream Machine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why would a farmer need to wield a sword? In this world, there’s a drinking game where a farmer tries to wield a sword and the game is that he tries to hold onto it as long as he can. The biggest hitch for Arnold is that you can’t just go kill things in the woods and level up. So, naturally that becomes his singular goal in life. He’s told you can choose a second class, whatever you want, if you level to 100 with your original class. He doesn’t handle strong smells well and that’s just not going to get you far with farming. He’s assigned to be a farmer despite hating the outdoors, gardening, and farm life in general. No, Arnold gets no choice in his Farmer Class. ![]() It doesn’t try to do it’s best by reading your mind and assigning you a class you’d be adept at, either. Unlike most LitRPGs I’ve read, you don’t get to choose your class in this one, it comes auto-assigned. ![]() Much like other LitRPGs there are various classes, and you level up by doing class related tasks and quests. He gets sucked into a different version of earth that comes with a built-in leveling system. ![]() Something about a resurrection gone wrong, multidimensional universe… quite honestly I really don’t remember the mechanics of it as it doesn’t really bear any further importance to the story. The MC, Arnold, was just going about his normal life when he gets accidentally murdered by a multidimensional being. There are time where I buy an audiobook solely based off who narrates it - just the audiophile in me □ I picked this up because it was on sale and narrated by Travis Baldree. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1921, We became the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board. He is most famous for his highly influential and widely imitated 1921 dystopian science fiction novel We, which is set in a futuristic police state. However, Zamyatin was just as deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the All-Union Communist Party (b) (VKP (b) following the October Revolution as he had been by Tsarist policy.ĭue to his subsequent use of literature to both satirize and criticize the Soviet Union's enforced conformity and increasing totalitarianism, Zamyatin, whom Mirra Ginsburg has dubbed "a man of incorruptible and uncompromising courage," is now considered one of the first Soviet dissidents. As a member of his Party's Pre-Revolutionary underground, Zamyatin was repeatedly arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and exiled. The son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik. Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, IPA: 1 February 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. ![]() ![]() Yevgeny Zamyatin by Boris Kustodiev (1923). ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Ann Rittenberg, Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency. 250,000-copy announced first printing author tour. The intrepid, appealing Cassie relies on her keen investigative instincts to hone in on Pergram in this top-notch thriller, which makes vivid use of the American West. Meanwhile, Pergram goes on a kidnapping spree that leads to Cassie getting back on the force and the case. ![]() In the aftermath, Cassie is suspended and obnoxious county attorney Avery Tibbs subsequently forces her to resign. Having eluded capture in 2013’s The Highway, the cunning Pergram gets wind of the plan and booby traps his truck, which explodes and kills several local police and feds involved in the operation, including Cassie’s fiancé. ![]() Cassie convinces her boss, Sheriff John Kirkbride, to approve a sting operation designed to entrap serial killer Ronald Pergram, an independent trucker who preys on truck stop prostitutes. Bestseller Box’s excellent conclusion to a quartet of loosely related novels that started with 2011’s Back of Beyond finds Cassie Dewell now the chief investigator for the Bakken County (N.Dak.) Sheriff’s Department. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read more On Albom's voyage of discovery he explores forgiveness, doubt and how to endure when the unimaginable happens. ![]() Over the course of his exploration, he is compelled to consider life's biggest questions. Feeling unworthy of such a responsibility, Albom sets out to know the man better and unexpectedly finds himself drawn to two seemingly disparate worlds: Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do. FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern _ Will you do my eulogy? With those words, Mitch Albom begins a remarkable eight-year journey to honour the request of a beloved rabbi. The new bestseller from the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Description for Have a Little Faith Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Except for Sally, who had a lot going on.) More aggressive editing was needed to allow a better flow.īy the end of the book, I had a good feel for the characters, but found them only marginally fleshed out: I never had a really clear idea of what anyone looked like, and found that behaviors and traits were told about rather than demonstrated. All this information though, often distracted from the present. ![]() In the first third of the book, the author’s research is beautifully expressed through a mingling of backstory, conversation, letters, and Brigid’s diary entries. But it was the disparate elements that caused this reader to be constantly be taken out of the story. The sum of all the parts of this novel amount to a decent read, and an informative look at the era. Brigid leaves Ireland to go to Australian in search of a new life. ![]() |