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kobvindex_ZLB34021862
ISBN:
9781847654410
Content:
" Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 The new series Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit is on BBC2 nowAncient 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 achievements, and why they are still important to us. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water, as well as exploring democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility and exploitation in the larger context of the empire, this is a definitive history of ancient Rome. SPQR is the Romans' own abbreviation for their state: Senatus Populusque Romanus , 'the Senate and People of Rome'. "
Content:
Rezension(1): "Mary Beard is one of the most original and best-known classicists working today. She is professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. Her books include The Parthenon, The Colosseum, The Roman Triumph, and the bestselling Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town which won the 2008 Wolfson History Prize and was made into a successful BBC documentary. Her popular TLS blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. Her series Meet the Romans on BBC2 attracted over 2m viewers. Her new book SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome will be published by Profile Books in October 2015. She lives in Cambridge." Rezension(2): "Bryan Appleyard: Fast-moving, exciting, psychologically acute, warmly sceptical " Rezension(3): "Natalie Haynes: Vastly engaging...a tremendously enjoyable and scholarly read " Rezension(4): "Sunday Times: Sustaining the energy that such a topic demands for more than 600 pages, while providing a coherent answer to the question of why Rome expanded so spectacularly, is hugely ambitious. Beard succeeds triumphantly...full of insights and delights... SPQR is consistently enlivened by Beard's eye for detail and her excellent sense of humour " Rezension(5): "Thomas Hodgkinson: Ground-breaking ... invigorating ... revolutionary ... a whole new approach to ancient history " Rezension(6): "Simon Sebag Montefiore: Dynamically, wittily and authoritatively brings the ancient world to life " Rezension(7): "Daily Telegraph: With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured "
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Auszeichnungen: The National Book Critics Circle:National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Language:
English
URL:
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http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=625961D7-E5C9-41C1-B183-581E3DA3D7A2
Author information:
Beard, Mary
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