Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Beard, Mary

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Editorial: Liveright Publishing Corporation / A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York & London, 2023

0871404222 / 9780871404220

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COMPELLING: INTIMATE: NUANCED: ICONOCLASTIC: BRILLIANT: VIVID: NEW First American Edition (2003) w/ no. line at "2" showing Second Printing: NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected color-illus. jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, NEW jet-black paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE handsomely-illus. sepia card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & gold-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity on VERY GOOD blemish-free archival paper * 6.25" x 9.50" x 1.60", 0.92 kg, xviii+494 (512) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In her international bestseller "S.P.Q.R.", Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Here, drawing on more than 30 years of teaching & writing about Roman history, Mary Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning w/ Julius Caesar--assassinated in 44 BCE--& taking us through the nearly 3 centuries--& some 30 emperors--that separate him from the boy-king Alexander(assassinated 235 CE). Yet "Emperor of Rome" is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger & more probing questions. What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter what really happened between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic w/ the quotidian, Beard tracks th emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. Along the way, Beard explores Roman fictions of imperial power, overturning many of the assumptions we hold as gospel, not least of them the perception that emperors one and all were orchestrators of extreme brutality & cruelty. Here Beard introduces us to the emperor's wives & lovers, rivals & slaves, court jesters & soldiers, & the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into hi ys hand--whose chamber pot disputes were adjudicated by Augustus, & whose budgets were approved by Vespasian, himself the son of a tax collector. W/ its nuanced portrayal of sex, class, & politics, "Emperors 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, & most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been oresented before. * MARY BEARD is the author of the NYT best-selling "SPQR" & "Confessing the Classics", both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, & the bestselling :"Women and Power." A well-known blogger & television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the NYRB. She lives in England. HIGH PRAISE: "Troll slayer."-New Yorker "What she says is always powerful & interesting."-The Guardian "A Cambridge professor & a television lecturer of irresistably salty charm."-NYTBR "Beard informs & entertains w/o ever patronizing her readers. What she touches turns to light."-The Independent * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $16.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted below-cost rates.

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Título
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Autor
Beard, Mary
Editorial
Liveright Publishing Corporation / A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York & London
Año de publicación
2023
Estado
New
Sobrecubierta
New
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0871404222
ISBN 13
9780871404220
Edición
1st American Edition
Impresión
2nd Printing
Peso del artículo
0,92 kilogramos

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