Emperor Of Rome: Ruling The Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

ISBN 10: 0871404222 / ISBN 13: 9780871404220

Editore: Liveright, 2023

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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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Titolo: Emperor Of Rome: Ruling The Ancient Roman ...
Casa editrice: Liveright
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: NEW
Edizione: Edizione Internazionale