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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World - Softcover

Beard, Mary

 
9781324095606: Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1324095601 ISBN 13: 9781324095606
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1324095601
ISBN 13 
9781324095606
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Anzahl der Seiten
491
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