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Gabriel, Richard A.: Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General.(Book review)
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Gabriel, Richard A.
Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General
Washington, DC: Potomac Books
326 pp., $27.50, ISBN 978-1-5979-7205-5
Publication Date: June 2008
War remains a constant, "the father of all things," to quote the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (ca. 500 BC). But does writing about war? Since the mid-1970s and the appearance of John Keegan's The Face of Battle (Viking, 1976), most historians who study and write about war try to explain it within the broader context of society and culture, what has come to be known as the ...
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NEW IMAGE FOR 3-D.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...brooch hanging on the wall at the American Propylaea Corp. in Birmingham, Mich., glitters...Holograms have been around for 50 years, but Propylaea's are a far cry from those metallic...accustomed to. Using colored lasers, Propylaea pioneered full-color holograms. It...
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THE PETRA GREAT TEMPLE: A NABATAEAN ARCHITECTURAL MIRACLE
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology
; ...comprises the lowest terrace or propylaeum (monumental entryway...alterations were completed. The Propylaeum consists of three parallel...principal street up some thirty Propylaea entry steps with columns on...smaller west stairway into the Propylaeum where, built into the west...
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Acropolis restorers unveil marble copy of capital carved in the ancient way
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...which will top a column in the monumental Propylaea gate leading to the Parthenon temple...replace one of the original six in the Propylaea, which also sported a group of six capitals...the more austere Doric style. "The Propylaea's ancient Ionic capitals are justly...
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Acropolis Restorers Unveil Copy of Column
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...techniques. It will form part of the Propylaea monumental gate, which is undergoing...will sit atop a column in the monumental Propylaea gate leading to the Parthenon. The Acropolis...sculptors, working for two years. "The Propylaea's ancient Ionic capitals are justly...
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HOLOGRAPHY TO BECOME $5-BILLION MARKET, SMRTEC CONFERENCE TOLD
PR Newswire
; ...officer of Birmingham, MI-based American Propylaea Corp. and Intrepid World Communications...can be digitized can be projected by Propylaea's LifeVision(TM) System, he said...CONTACT: Jim Fischbach of American Propylaea, 810-642-7000; or Gabe Werba of...
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Steam ahead: the proposed rebuilding of London's Euston station is an opportunity to atone for a great architectural crime.(ARCHITECTURE)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Nature by announcing it with a Doric propylaeum or gateway (not a triumphal arch...Group proved to the directors that the propylaeum could be re-erected further south...image of the railways represented by the propylaeum, that relic of the steam age, was...
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Ekmek, anyone?(Tourism)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...the Temple of Athena Victory and the Propylaea. Perched on a hill overlooking the...concerts and other festivities. The Propylaea is the grand entrance of the Acropolis. To the south of the Propylaea is the Temple of Athena Nike (Victory...
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Greece's Acropolis to lose scaffolding after extensive facelift
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Parthenon and Athena Nike temples, as well as the massive Propylaea gate _ all built in the mid-5th century B.C. at the height...further repairs will be carried out to the Parthenon and the Propylaea, as well as the defensive wall surrounding the citadel...
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"Miserable huts" in post-146 B.C. Corinth.
Magazine article from: Hesperia
; ...inhabitants of 146-44 B.C. along the Lechaeum Road near the propylaea and in the area of the West Shops." Wiseman too offers support...discovered along the Lechaeum Road in the neighborhood of the 'Propylaea' and the 'Western Shops.'" (3) His note 553 reports...
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Save the archive
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Thomas, just like an architect, insisted that the stone propylaeum could not possibly be moved, but Albert Richardson and Lord...directors of the London & Birmingham Railway what his propylaeum and the flanking hotel blocks would look like. But, above...
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