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Lädt ... Hadrian's Empire: When Rome Ruled the World (2005)von Danny Danziger, Nicholas Purcell (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I never trust a history book without footnotes or endnotes. No matter how consistent the narrative is to my own knowledge, I just don't think it's right to publish a history book without notes. No bibliography, either. Without sources, I just don't find the book credible, and I have to confess, I enjoyed it the less for that. This book also skipped over the first 30 years of Hadrian's life in a scant few pages, which was a great disappointment - the interesting stuff is what happened to make him the man he was, and this was virtually ignored. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell reveal the details of the extraordinary life of this mysterious man, and the age in which he lived and ruled. Hadrian was Spanish, and a restless, inquiring intellectual. He travelled constantly and spent much time in cultural centres like Athens and Alexandria. Although he was not warlike, he was a good soldier, and was comfortable mingling amongst all ranks. And yet his personal life was a complicated one, rife with scandal and conflicted sexuality. This complex character was also responsible for some of the world's most enduring architectural treasures. He built the Pantheon in Rome, the largest dome built using pre-industrial methods and a sprawling 900-room villa at Tivoli with a towering 'pumpkin dome' - a fittingly idiosyncratic memorial to this most unusual of emperors. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)937.07092History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Constitutional 31 B.C.-284 A.D.Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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