Caligula - Rilegato

Massie, Allan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0340823135 ISBN 13: 9780340823132

Casa editrice: Sceptre, 2003

Riassunto

Gaius Caligula is known as the mad emperor, the one who made his horse a consul. He was violent and vicious, a murderer and guilty of committing incest with his sisters. Yet, when he succeeded the aged recluse Tiberius, the Romans were delighted and for a few months at least he seemed generous and enlightened. So what went wrong? Why was he murdered after a reign of only four years? Is the conventional picture true or false: was he mad and evil or the victim of circumstance and rumour? Is it possible to take a sympathetic view of Caligula...and is it possible to make sense of him? In his compelling new novel Allan Massie peels back the mask of the monster of popular myth to expose the young emperor as a real man and explore the truth of his brief but tempestuous reign.

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Recensione:

This is a compelling and flinty-eyed study of power and politics, men and character, seen through the eyes of a Roman narrator - an experienced soldier and reluctant politician, and a wonderfully laconic, dry and disillusioned creation ... Allan Massie's Caligula is a wonderfully satisfying, three-dimensional figure, and rather terrifying ... Caligula as a proto-Nietzchean Ubermensch [is] a persuasive interpretation, and a lot more compelling than the popular one, which casts him as a pantomime sadist (Christopher Hart, Literary Review)

Caligula is an impressive addition to a sequence of novels that in their sustained interest and detailed recreation of a society at once alien and familiar must rank as one of the most important historical chronicles in contemporary fiction. (Barry Unsworth, Spectator)

'Massie ... is a true master of his period.' The Sunday Telegraph (The Sunday Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Was Caligula not so bad after all? In the bestselling tradition of his Roman Quartet, Allan Massie takes on one of the most notorious Roman emperors

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• Editore: Sceptre
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0340823135
• ISBN 13: 9780340823132
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288