Everyday life for the Roman schoolboy.

History Today | October 1, 1993| | Copyright

The term, |everyday life', poses a problem: whose everyday life? one obvious temptation is to identify with the rich, the powerful and the beautiful. Reading a history journal is our best chance of becoming, if only for a moment, Empress of Rome or a victorious Roman general, riding in a chariot among cheering crowds, dressed like Jupiter in a purple cloak thrown over a toga sewn with golden stars. But does anyone imagine themselves to be a slave, a slaughtered prisoner or a child? And yet the Roman child's experience served as his or her introduction to the Roman world. ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

THE GREENING OF FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED Passion of a Public Artist By Melvin Kalfus New York University...Spongberg Harvard University Press, 270 pages, $35, illustrated Frederick Law Olmsted, a New England icon, figured large in the culture of the region...
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
Magazine article from: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society ; A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth...together the innumerable details of Olmsted's life into a highly readable...Roper's FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...
The Man Behind Central Park / Frederick Law Olmsted's social consciousness helped create open space in U.S. cities.(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle ; A CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century By Witold...American has shaped the look of our cities more than Frederick Law Olmsted. It's not just that he designed landmarks such...
In the park with Fred The man who brought country to city -- a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; A CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century By Witold...working on a series of paintings of Boston's Olmsted landscapes. Frederick Law Olmsted was a self-invented man. His mother...
Parks For People.(park designer Frederick Law Olmsted)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report ; ...apartment," he says. Frederick Law Olmsted foresaw that need long...into architecture. Olmsted shaped it into hills...construction. One and all. Olmsted's purposes were social...worships at the altar of Frederick Law Olmsted," explains...
A CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED AND AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Scholar ; ...IN THE DISTANCE: FREDERICIK LAW OLMSTED AND AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH...s admirable new biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), the subject...architect. Of all American artists, Frederick Law Olmsted ... stands first...
Scenic overlooks: Frederick Law Olmsted's landscapes have taught us how to think about nature for 100 years.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Newsweek ; Frederick Law Olmsted's landscapes have taught us how to think about nature for 100 years IF A NOVELIST MADE UP A CHARACTER like Frederick Law Olmsted, no one would believe it. One of those aimless young men of promise...
"A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century,"
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ; "A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century," by Witold...similar assessment could be made about the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, the social-reformer-turned-landscape...
Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted not the first.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...his review of Witold Rybczynski's biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, your reviewer, Eli Lehrer, writes, "It comes...Witold Rybczynski's `A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century' is the...
Olmsted's Cracker preacher. (Frederick Law Olmstead)
Magazine article from: Southern Cultures ; Frederick Law Olmsted, in his Journal in the Seaboard Slave...believed in witchcraft and evil spirits, Olmsted warmed to his task. He provided a lengthy...going of whites and blacks displeased Olmsted, and the shrieking offended his sense...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Everyday life for the Roman schoolboy."