SPQR
A History of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today.SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. It explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievem…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84668-381-7
- EAN: 9781846683817
- Produktnummer: 18954367
- Verlag: Profile Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.8 cm 515 g
- Abbildungen: 16 page pcolour plate section and embedded black and white pictures
- Gewicht: 515
Über den Autor
Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.
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