Roman Disasters
Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men fell in a single day, to the destruction of Pompeii, to the first appearance of the bubonic plague, the Romans experienced large scale calamities.Earthquakes, fires, floods and famines also regularly afflicted them.This insightful book is the first to treat such disasters as a conceptual unity. It shows that vulnerability to disasters was affected by politics, social status, ideolog…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-7668-5
- EAN: 9780745676685
- Produktnummer: 26339889
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'580 KB
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Jerry Toner is the director of studies in classics at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
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