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 12
... things to come, although he is not for the moment in danger. He is left in peace by the authorities because Jews were assigned a unique place by Theodosius. In 393 their religion was recognized as legal, they were guaranteed right of ...
... things to come, although he is not for the moment in danger. He is left in peace by the authorities because Jews were assigned a unique place by Theodosius. In 393 their religion was recognized as legal, they were guaranteed right of ...
Pagina 33
... desire to use incantation and bloody sacrifice to control the future, to meddle in things that belong only to God. I hope fervently that what happened today will bring you insight, help you to regain humility The Prefect 33.
... desire to use incantation and bloody sacrifice to control the future, to meddle in things that belong only to God. I hope fervently that what happened today will bring you insight, help you to regain humility The Prefect 33.
Pagina 55
... things which are most hidden — the desire or the aversion of one individual, even those impulses which are never completely conscious — can turn the scale, determine the lives and destinies of others, call up actions and reactions which ...
... things which are most hidden — the desire or the aversion of one individual, even those impulses which are never completely conscious — can turn the scale, determine the lives and destinies of others, call up actions and reactions which ...
Pagina 57
... things objectively, without attaching too much importance to them. If anyone else were involved, Eliezar would silently repress his disgust and then take steps to prevent that sort of thing from happening again. But the look of thatboy ...
... things objectively, without attaching too much importance to them. If anyone else were involved, Eliezar would silently repress his disgust and then take steps to prevent that sort of thing from happening again. But the look of thatboy ...
Pagina 66
... things which he himself had said and what Eliezar had replied, or implied. There was the question of the appointment of Flavius Stilicho to the supreme command of the army. As an Egyptian by birth, Hadrian could hardly take the liberty ...
... things which he himself had said and what Eliezar had replied, or implied. There was the question of the appointment of Flavius Stilicho to the supreme command of the army. As an Egyptian by birth, Hadrian could hardly take the liberty ...
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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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