Praetorium Speluncae. Tiberius und Ovid in Sperlonga. - ANDREAE, B.,
Tiberius und Ovid in Sperlonga
KORTE INHOUD
'Some one hundred and twenty miles south of Rome, on the coast near the modern Sperlonga, is a natural grotto facing out to sea with an ancient mansion in front of it. Suetonius (Tib. 39) refers to it in connexion with the rock-fall which came close to killing the emperor (...) The events are related also by Tacitus, Ann. 4.59. Since the grotto was decorated with statue groups (...) the attention of generations of art historians since 1839, when it was first written about by L. Rossini, has been devoted to answering basic questions about it (...): when was the work executed? who ommissioned it? who inspired it? who carried the work out? who was it originally done for? A. has been involved wiht these questions since 1964, and a long list of publications by him on the subject betokens an almost obessive fascination with it. He now, in an attempt finally to dispose of criticism of his views, writes on a large scale with earnest pertinacity and the missionary zeal of an anxious enforcer. As the subtitle of his bo...
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1994Uitgever: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur240 paginasISBN-10: 3515066438ISBN-13: 9783515066433Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Mainz / Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994. 240p. Sewn. With gift intention from the author to NH on title page. Series: Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Jahrgang 1994, Nr. 12. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: ANDREAE, B.,] [Uitgever: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: Praetorium Speluncae. Tiberius und Ovid in Sperlonga.]
