Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth Century RomeAcademy Chicago Publishers, 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 62
... Hadrian and Eliezar ben Ezekiel - not friendship , even less a conventional exchange of courtesy visits ( Hadrian goes to Eliezar , never the other way round ) . His own motivations are not clear to Hadrian . Sometimes he is overcome by ...
... Hadrian and Eliezar ben Ezekiel - not friendship , even less a conventional exchange of courtesy visits ( Hadrian goes to Eliezar , never the other way round ) . His own motivations are not clear to Hadrian . Sometimes he is overcome by ...
Pagina 65
A Novel of Fifth Century Rome Hella S. Haasse. appears better informed than Hadrian himself , about what is happening in Constantinople and Milan . - They discuss politics - that is , Hadrian takes the floor , not only to broach a ...
A Novel of Fifth Century Rome Hella S. Haasse. appears better informed than Hadrian himself , about what is happening in Constantinople and Milan . - They discuss politics - that is , Hadrian takes the floor , not only to broach a ...
Pagina 82
... Hadrian is watching him . One line haunts him : " I shall never hesitate to become the weapon which brings Zeus to ... Hadrian on the results of his intercession and begs to be left in solitude . For some time now he has suffered attacks ...
... Hadrian is watching him . One line haunts him : " I shall never hesitate to become the weapon which brings Zeus to ... Hadrian on the results of his intercession and begs to be left in solitude . For some time now he has suffered attacks ...
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Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
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