..., ecology, distribution, and evolution. adaptation body-size evolution climate change Furnace Creek late Pleistocene Titus Canyon Yesterday afternoon I put out 49 rodent traps thru the big mesquites and sand-dunes south of the ranch about 1½ miles. Absolutely the only vegetation in sight for hundreds...

... and explication of the experiences and customs of the Jews? In what ways did his personal relationship with Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian colour the way he viewed and represented the past, both Jewish and Roman? 15 More ambitiously, this volume seeks to bring together approaches to Josephus that are too often...

...This chapter explores in detail the role of the Flavian victory in Judaea in the physical transformation of the city of Rome. The triumph of Vespasian and Titus ex Iudaeis in June 71 CE was an event made more memorable by Josephus’ lavish description of it. The defeat of the Jews...

...Oxford University could not escape the political agitation set in motion by the Popish Plot. The scaremongering associated with Titus Oates's discovery of a supposed Catholic conspiracy against the life of Charles II seriously bothered Protestants. No sooner had the anti-Catholic hysteria...

...Within the sum of William Shakespeare’s drama, a specific material book appears in only two plays, Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline. In both plays it is Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and the text is the rape of Philomel. Ostensibly, Metamorphoses...

...This chapter analyses Suetonius’ briefest biography in the Caesars, that of the emperor Titus, which is often seen as structurally anomalous and favourably one-sided. Suetonius’ account of Titus is compared with passages in Tacitus and Dio, whose similar judgements on the emperor’s...

... as a printed book was, theatrically considered, an assemblage of part-scripts and cues that recycled bits and pieces from across the repertory of the commercial theaters. Through a reading of Hamlet (1603) and the Roman tragedies, notably Titus Andronicus (1594...

... birds are generally figurative, but may also be literal. At the beginning of Titus Groan, when Steerpike first visits the runesquallors, he flatters Irma and her heart is touched. At once, ‘somewhere in the vaults of her bosom a tiny imprisoned bird [begins] to sing’. Mr Pye's attention...

... to establish, affirm, and maintain a sense of identity runs throughout Peake's work, especially the Titus books. However, as Peake did not manage to take his hero into adulthood, his main emphasis falls on the adolescent stage of this quest. Donne John Sark island of Tristram Shandy BBC broadcasts Milligan...

...This chapter provides a comparison of Richard III and Titus Andronicus. Both Titus and Richard III have at their centre an elaborated picture of tyranny. While Titus comes off as a revenge tragedy, it also features...

.... Richard III is a portrait of a sociopathic personality who kills everyone on his path to the throne. King Lear Hamlet Richard III Romeo and Juliet Othello Titus Andronicus Measure for Measure Othello syndrome narcissistic personality disorder paranoia Comedy of Errors The Shakespeare...

...This chapter focuses on the play “Titus Andronicus,” which is considered not merely a revenge tragedy. It explains how Titus is suffused with evocations and references to the Aeneid and central elements in the plot that are taken from Ovid. It also mentions how Titus was described as a “noble Roman...

... discusses how the play “Titus Andronicus” presented the impulses that lie behind aims that are quintessentially “feminine.” evil counsel Titus Andronicus tyranny Troy infanticide Marlowe Christopher Shakespeare William Atheism devil the repentance Allen William cardinal Bacon Nathaniel Cecil...

... of a battery of providential signs, dreams, prophecies and omens. It also discusses the Titus providence, which is defined as the intervention of the supernatural and the prophetic directly into events. The chapter analyzes the “Titus Andronicus” that contains the structures of a typical criminal prosecution...

... coming from the knights of the air tradition fought to make it a lightweight, agile air-to-air machine. The program became a battleground for competing interests. The chapter tackles the contributions of John Boyd, Pierre Sprey, and Robert Titus, among others, in defining the F-X in a way that satisfied...

... of the Bacchantes—make this violence abundantly clear. The chapter then presents the fragmented pieces of the Orpheus myth in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (1594) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) which designate the scattering of Ovid's Orpheus as the transmission of poetry...

... reckonings of life and its promise in governable futures, which some refer to as biopolitics. Through readings of The Rape of Lucrece and Titus Andronicus the chapter explores how what kind of life women and children constitute at the ambiguous juncture of sovereignty and governmentality and in a paradoxical...

... to the people as a political unit. Titus Andronicus reveals life in its magnitude as death-soaked, in the manner of revenge tragedies, but also, and more potently, the multiplicity of life appears as blight registered through negative enumeration in the urban tomb that is Rome. Julius Caesar and Coriolanus...

...The Exclusion Crisis arose over the Whig party’s attempt to block the Catholic James Duke York, from inheriting the throne. It led to a series of public demonstrations playing on fears of a fictional Catholic treason plot created by Titus Oates, the Popish Plot. As series of treason trials based...

... Livy Ovid Homer Iliad The Homer Titus Andronicus Shakespeare Botticelli Sandro Rape of Lucrece Titian Titian Tragedy of Lucretia The Botticelli Tarquin and Lucretia Titian Julius Caesar Shakespeare stanza form Macbeth Shakespeare Marlowe Christopher Tamburlaine the Great Marlowe...