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Galla Placidia
Placidia
Placidia Roman empress: see Galla Placidia .
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Ancient air: a stony sestina, doubled in time. (poem)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...heard the professor say, " San Vitale, Galla Placidia, Theodora, Justinian." Flashes in the dark, Galla Placidia's heaven-blue dome, the wild touch...his way. Imagine him staring at Galla Placidia's starry tomb. I would not like to...
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A reverence for history's art; Ravenna, Italy's famed mosaics dazzle as they cross centuries.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 1/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...earliest of them being the so-called Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, which shares the same parklike setting with St...control of the peninsula. Honorius' sister was Galla Placidia (A.D. 386 to 450), daughter of Emperor Theodosius...
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DIVINE COMEDY BETWEEN FLORENCE, RAVENNA.(Sports)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 10/3/1999; 700+ words
; ...their color and exuberance. Those of the tomb of Galla Placidia are an emotional experience. You come in to a dark...surface is covered, and you are enveloped in beauty. Galla Placidia was the daughter of the last emperor, Theodosius...
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Divine Comedy's Last Laugh
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...their color and exuberance. Those of the tomb of Galla Placidia are an emotional experience. You come in to a dark...surface is covered, and you are enveloped in beauty. Galla Placidia was the daughter of the last emperor, Theodosius...
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Does Empire Work?
Magazine article from: Liberty; 12/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...human beings. Extraordinary stories such as that of the leader of the Goths, Ataulf, and his prisoner and wife, Galla Placidia, sister of the emperor, are told in bare and lifeless summary. Yet almost every individual depicted in these pages...
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Fighting identity: why we are losing our wars.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: Military Review; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...strength, the Goths soon take on the imperial state itself. Rome contains them only when the emperor's sister. Galla Placidia. weds the Gothic leader and Visigoths are made Roman in Aquitaine. (1) Nine centuries later. A wholly extravagant...
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Books: Rome didn't really fall " it was pushed The Fall of the Roman Empire By Peter Heather MACMILLAN pounds 25 pounds 22.50 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 7/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...desperately and tragically to save an Empire that was already lost; that extraordinary power-behind-several-thrones, Galla Placidia, both daughter, sister and mother of emperors, and her flighty daughter Honoria, who got herself pregnant by her...
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Mosaics Move Off the Wall and Onto the Table
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/2/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...with scenes of water fowl and plants in greens and blues, that was inspired by the teeming ancient mosaics at the Galla Placidia Mausoleum and St. Apollinare in Classe Church and that turns out to be a chest of drawers. (Its designer, Giorgio...
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A matter of good taste When you've had your fill of Ravenna's marvellous mosaics, says Kathy Arnold, treat yourself to some of its exquisite ice cream
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...created from tesserae, tiny cubes of glass. A few steps away stands a small, dusty brick building, the Mausoleo di Galla Placidia. It is more than 100 years older than San Vitale, and supposedly the burial place of Emperor Theodosius's niece...
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An Overview of Emilia Romagna
Magazine article from: Ambassador; 10/31/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...history. Here, East meets West and the momentous union is reflected in dazzling mosaic decorations. The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia and the Basilica of San Vitale harbor the best-known mosaics, from simple Early Christian figures and symbols in...
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Galla Placidia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Galla Placidia ( c. 390–450), Roman Empress. The daughter of Theodosius I , on the accession of her son as Valentinian III (425), she acted as regent. She supported Pope Leo III in the Eutychian controversy.
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Placidia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Placidia Roman empress: see Galla Placidia .
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Constantius III
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to the hand of Honorius' sister Galla Placidia , he vied with his rival, Ataulf...Ataulf's marriage (414) to Galla Placidia. In 416, after Ataulf was assassinated...Wallia, and in 417 he married Galla Placidia. He was the prime mover in granting...
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Honorius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...414) as husband for his sister Galla Placidia . A rival emperor, Constantine...married (417) the widowed Galla Placidia. In 421, Honorius was obliged...from the East, the son of Galla Placidia and Constantius became (425...
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Boniface
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...against the Visigoths under Ataulf. Having supported Galla Placidia in her struggle with her brother, Emperor Honorius...Beaten again in 431, Boniface was recalled to Italy by Placidia to assist her against the general Aetius . He defeated...
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