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Lädt ... SPQR : Die tausendjährige Geschichte Roms (2015)von Mary Beard
   Books Read in 2016 (121) Books Read in 2017 (318) Top Five Books of 2017 (245) » 14 mehr Top Five Books of 2015 (816) Female Author (529) Library TBR (2) Books Read in 2020 (4,025) Antigua Roma (8) Books Read in 2019 (3,430) Chronological 2015 (39) The Hive Recommends (11) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Borrring. (  ) Foeger | Jan 3, 2022 |  Listened on Audible. Interesting, engaging, and broad history of the rise of Rome. (  ) iaross | Sep 21, 2021 | Excellent introduction to the history of Rome. Written for a popular audience without any background in Roman history. ( ) AstonishingChristina | Aug 30, 2021 | attention waned at times... lots to cover ( ) maryroberta | Aug 23, 2021 | I loved this book! I feel like the history of Rome - the city, the Republic, and then the Empire - is only glazed over in history classes because of the sheer immensity of its timeline. Mary Beard deftly tells readers the history of Rome in the best way possibly with available information. It is a well written, well told history of a city that turned into an empire. (  ) historybookreads | Jul 26, 2021 |
 By the time Beard has finished, she has explored not only archaic, republican, and imperial Rome, but the eastern and western provinces over which it eventually won control. She deploys an immense range of ancient sources, in both Greek and Latin, and an equally wide range of material objects, from pots and coins to inscriptions, sculptures, reliefs, and temples. She moves with ease and mastery through archaeology, numismatics, and philology, as well as a mass of written documents on stone and papyrus. "She conveys the thrill of puzzling over texts and events that are bound to be ambiguous, and she complicates received wisdom in the process."  You push past this book’s occasional unventilated corner, however, because Ms. Beard is competent and charming company. In “SPQR” she pulls off the difficult feat of deliberating at length on the largest intellectual and moral issues her subject presents (liberty, beauty, citizenship, power) while maintaining an intimate tone. "SPQR is pacy, weighty, relevant and iconoclastic. Who knew classics could be so enthralling?" Beard presents a plausible picture of gradual development from a community of warlords to an urban centre with complex political institutions, institutions which systematically favoured the interests of the upper classes yet allowed scope for the votes of the poor to carry weight. We may think of the Greeks as the great originators of western political theory, but Beard emphasises the sophistication of Roman legal thought, already grappling in the late second century BC with the complex ethical issues raised by the government of subject peoples.
Ancient 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'. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)937 — History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.15)
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