Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous - Royston Lambert
 |
 Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous - Royston Lambert
Newest Review: ... way of talking about oneself than it is of talking about one's subject. Lambert was presumably a paederast in the ... more  ... classical sense, and all his talk of, respectively, the complexity of Hadrian's personality and the beauty of body and soul of Antinoüs was disguised autobiography and sexual fantasy. Still, it packs in a lot of classical history and was fascinating on the way the cult of Antinoüs was created by Hadrian and spread throughout the empire. Among other fascinating sidelights was the story of the Paedogogium in Rome (Trajan's and, to a lesser extent, Hadrian's "harem") and the grafitti scratched ther...more |
||
Price Comparison for Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Ant...
|
Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian andAntinous
Pages: 298, Hardcover, Viking Books Last Update 08.11.2009 05:40
|
£ 34.19 |
   
|
|
|
|
Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian andAntinous
Pages: 32, Edition: Reprint, Paperback, University Books Last Update 08.11.2009 05:40
|
£ 5.54 |
|
|
Read Reviews for Beloved and God: The Story of ...
Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous - Royston Lambert: Murder on the Nile? (413 words)
by - written on 20/07/00 (Very useful, 124 readings)
Rating:
Antinoüs was the Bithynian catamite of the Emperor Hadrian and was discovered dead in the river Nile, apparently drowned, in the second century AD. Why and precisely how he died has never been discovered, but this book is a discussion of the theories that have been devised and of the way Antinoüs's death has influenced Western art and culture from his own times to the present day. It's dense and sometimes difficult to read, with some spectacularly crass metaphors, but it's still worthwhile, if partly as an illustration of how biography is more a disguised (and sometimes not so disguised) way of talking about oneself than it is of talking about ... Read the complete review
Products similar to Beloved and God: The Story of ...
packed full of useful info 
none All you need to know None the easiest guide for the lay person still a bit difficult in parts full of trivia. covers a wide range of topics- informative and interesting. Not got any. The biggest one volume bilingual dictionary about not exactly something you can stick in your pocket... Good layout, good concise explanations in most bits Very inadequate mathematic explanationThe Eagle's Prophecy - Simon Scarrow
Finger Puppet Friends: Where is Mama Bear?
Very cute idea Badly executed, hardly any story, not much to do with the puppets
Buyology - Martin Lindstrom
Interesting and occasionally groundbreaking Totally inflated self-importance, study doesn't test behaviour
Panic Signs - Cristina Peri Rossi
beautifully translated, poetic, satirical, imaginative, multi-layered, Kafka-esque difficult subject, difficult to interpret the meaning behind the metaphor
Sin City: Hell and Back - Frank Miller
Incredibly evocative artwork, strong story telling Graphic, adult nature of the content may offend. After this, there is no more Sin City
The Fidelity Files - Jessica Brody
Brilliant read, good characters, I loved it! None
The Principessa - Christie Dickason
Action packed historical fiction. Doesn't have the varied sub-plots of its predecessor.
Fairy Tales for Little Children
well written, well illustrated fairy stories pages can be torn
Adept - Robert Finn
Great fun, engaging story, strong sense of humour sets it apart from similar books Wholly unoriginal and chock full of cliches; Author has an obsession with the IBook
The Stolen Voice - Pat McIntosh
Advantages and disadvantages from the dooyooCommunity
Home - About dooyoo.co.uk - Advertising - Contact dooyoo - Terms and Conditions
dooyoo Europe:
Deutschland 
España 
Italia 
France - Sitemap - Product Index
