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The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Iain Pears
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-10-31
The Dream Of Scipio written by Iain Pears and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-31 with Fiction categories.
Dark, erudite and like An Instance of the Fingerpost, utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms Iain Pears as one of Britain's most imaginative novelists Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth - The Dream of Scipio follows the fortunes of three men: Manlius Hippomanes, a Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilisation, Olivier de Noyen, a poet, and Julien Barneuve, an intellectual who joins the Vichy government. The story of each man is woven through the narrative, linked by the classical text that gives the book its title, and by each man's love for an extraordinary woman. ‘Irresistibly seizes the imagination’ Evening Standard
The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Iain Pears
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-08-06
The Dream Of Scipio written by Iain Pears and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-06 with Fiction categories.
Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. The centuries are the 5th (the final days of the Roman Empire); the 14th (the years of the Plague — the Black Death); and the 20th (World War II). The setting for each is the same — Provence — and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, and what joins them thematically is an ancient text — “The Dream of Scipio” — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? “Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,” warns one of Pears’s characters. The Dream of Scipio is a bona fide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, fiction for our times.
Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Iain Pears
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-06-03
Dream Of Scipio written by Iain Pears and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-03 with Fiction categories.
In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds from the madness that surrounds them in the final days of the Roman Empire, in the grim years of the Black Death, and in the direst hours of World War II. An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice. Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.
The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
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Commentary On The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Commentary On The Dream Of Scipio written by Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Neoplatonism categories.
The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
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The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Pietro Metastasio
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
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The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Cicero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-07
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The Dream of Scipio (Latin, Somnium Scipionis), written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a fictional dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before he commanded at the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC.Upon his arrival in Africa, a guest at the court of Massinissa, Scipio Aemilianus is visited by his dead grandfather (by adoption), Scipio Africanus, hero of the Second Punic War. He finds himself looking down upon Carthage "from a high place full of stars, shining and splendid". His future is foretold by his grandfather, and great stress is placed upon the loyal duty of the Roman soldier, who will as a reward after death "inhabit... that circle that shines forth among the stars which you have learned from the Greeks to call the Milky Way". Nevertheless, Scipio Aemilianus sees that Rome is an insignificant part of the earth, which is itself dwarfed by the stars. The planetary spheres are enumerated with references to Pythagorean thought and the idea of the Music of the Spheres. Then the climatic belts of the earth are observed, from the snow fields to the deserts, and there is discussion of the nature of the Divine, the soul and virtue, from the Stoic point of view.The literary and philosophical influence of the Somnium was great. Macrobius commented on it in his Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, which in turn was an important source for medieval dream theory.
Somnium Scipionis The Dream Of Scipio Africanus Minor Being The Epilogue Of Cicero S Treatise On Polity
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Somnium Scipionis The Dream Of Scipio Africanus Minor Being The Epilogue Of Cicero S Treatise On Polity written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Translation Of The Dream Of Scipio
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1844
A Translation Of The Dream Of Scipio written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1844 with categories.
