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The introduction to The Sugar Cane mentions the exoticism and novelty of his new surroundings as Grainger's main reason for writing his "West-India georgic", coupled with the example of adaptations of the Classical model to domestic subjects such as John Philips' Cyder (1708) and John Dyer's The Fleece (1757) - which Grainger had been among the few to review favourably on its first appearance.
Domitian (/ d ə ˈ m ɪ ʃ ən,-i ən /, də-MISH-ən, -ee-ən; Latin: Domitianus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was Roman emperor from 81 to 96. The son of Vespasian and the younger brother of Titus, his two predecessors on the throne, he was the last member of the Flavian dynasty.
John Grainger (1830, Belfast – 1891) was an Irish cleric and antiquarian. Grainger was educated at Belfast Academy and Trinity College , Dublin. After gaining a Doctorate of Divinity he became Rector of Broughshane , County Antrim.
The Roman Actor (1626), a play by Philip Massinger that features Domitian as the main character. [1]Domitia (1898), a historical novel by Sabine Baring-Gould; Josephus and the Emperor (1942; earlier Der Tag wird kommen), historical novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, [2] in which a cruel and hypocritical Domitian suggests the tyranny of Adolf Hitler.
Nicolas Poussin's Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640) Christian tradition has considered the Book of Revelation's writer to be the same person as John the Apostle. A minority of ancient clerics and scholars, such as Eusebius (d. 339/340), recognize at least one further John as a companion of Jesus, John the Presbyter. Some Christian ...
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial / ˈ m ɑːr ʃ əl /; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
John Granger is a speaker and writer whose principal focus is the intersection of literature, faith, and culture. He is most well known as the author of several books analysing J.K. Rowling 's Harry Potter novels.
The film is set in AD 90 and concerns Jesus Christ's last surviving apostle, John, and his writings and visions from the Apocalypse of John. Emperor Domitian declares himself to be God and ruler over heaven and earth. The Christians do not recognize his divinity and face persecution from the God-Emperor.