SPQREmperor of RomeAlong the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions that we hold as gospel, not the least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality and cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor’s wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers, and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hand—whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, and whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector.With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.
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Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023. New. F/F. A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by a world-famous classicist. First Edition. First printing with number line starting in 1. Signed by Mary Beard on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Includes illustrated endpapers, photos, maps, chronologies, and index. The dust jacket is unclipped ($39.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 512 pages. 6½ x 9½" tall. "Emperor of Rome" explores the facts and fiction of these rulers of the ancient Roman world, asking what they did, why they did it, and why their stories have been told in the extravagant, sometimes lurid, ways that they have. It looks at big questions of power, corruption, and conspiracy. Signed by Author(s). Artikel-Nr. 10993
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