Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century RomeChicago Review Press, 1 aug 2005 - 255 pagina's In this vivid, dynamic novel, Hella Haasse has once more brought the past to life. This time she has chosen to illuminate a crucial, yet relatively obscure period of history: it is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorius, an incompetent weakling, cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government; he rarely "makes entry" into Rome. This is the brilliant canvas against which the characters in this drama interact. There is the Prefect Hadrian, a powerful official and fanatical Christian convert; there is Marcus Anicius, the pagan aristocrat who is clinging to a dying past, and there is the Jew Eliezar be Elijah, hemmed in by his own traditions and burdened by his dark vision of the future. There is the intrigue and uncertainty of life at Honorius's court, and there are the streets and tenements of Rome, pulsating with life and with corruption. |
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Pagina 13
... later became poet to the court of Emperor Honorius. He is generally considered to be the last of the great Latin poets. He wrote panegyrics, invectives and epics, most of them celebrating the accomplishments of his hero and mentor ...
... later became poet to the court of Emperor Honorius. He is generally considered to be the last of the great Latin poets. He wrote panegyrics, invectives and epics, most of them celebrating the accomplishments of his hero and mentor ...
Pagina 43
... Later — the hearing is suspended until further notice—in an adjoining room where the confiscated books and personal property of Marcus Anicius Rufus are displayed, the Prefect absorbs the full significance of that last remark. As he ...
... Later — the hearing is suspended until further notice—in an adjoining room where the confiscated books and personal property of Marcus Anicius Rufus are displayed, the Prefect absorbs the full significance of that last remark. As he ...
Pagina 49
... of one accused in a later trial, possesses the power to summon back a vanished man, to reopen an old wound. “We don't need this here,” the Prefect says. He pushes the book roll (“The Works of Claudianus") away from The Prefect 49.
... of one accused in a later trial, possesses the power to summon back a vanished man, to reopen an old wound. “We don't need this here,” the Prefect says. He pushes the book roll (“The Works of Claudianus") away from The Prefect 49.
Pagina 54
... later, in the prefecture of Rome, all the impressions and feelings of that moment revive in the memories of two men for whom the words “born on the banks of the Nile.” are key. Close, sultry heat, the stink of mud, the cries of the ibis ...
... later, in the prefecture of Rome, all the impressions and feelings of that moment revive in the memories of two men for whom the words “born on the banks of the Nile.” are key. Close, sultry heat, the stink of mud, the cries of the ibis ...
Pagina 55
... later, that man cannot control. Let us take the case of Eliezar ben Ezekiel who, in the zenith of his manhood, has reached that stage of life when one becomes aware that old age is approaching. An experienced man who understands people ...
... later, that man cannot control. Let us take the case of Eliezar ben Ezekiel who, in the zenith of his manhood, has reached that stage of life when one becomes aware that old age is approaching. An experienced man who understands people ...
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Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
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