S.P.Q.R., A History of Ancient Rome

Beard, Mary

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Editorial: Liveright, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London, 2015

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BRILLIANT: NEW: First Edition hardcover (orig. 2015) First Printing w/ no. "2", NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $35.00 pub. price top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW tan-paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles gilt-stamped on spine, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & brown cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed on excellent archival paper * 103 b-w illus., 16 pp. center-insert presenting 21 color illus. on superb gloss-laminated paper; 5 maps * Further Reading (537), Time-line (563), Acknowledgments (573), List of illus. (575), Index (585) * 6.46" x 9.50" x 1.86", 1.72 kg, 606 pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: A FOREMOST classicist presents a SWEEPING, REVISIONIST of the Roman Empire that will become the standard for our time: Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury & filth, liberty & exploitation, civic pride & murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In "S.P.Q.R.", world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury & beauty. From the foundational myth of Romulus & Remus to 212 ce (nearly 1,000 years later) when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire "S.P.Q.R." (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism & revolution, & how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 bce w/ the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline & Cicero, the renowned politician & orator, Beard animates this "terrorist conspiracy," which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy & autocracy that would come to define much of Rome's subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident & self-critical empire, "S.P.Q.R." reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous & familiar characters (Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, & Nero, among others) while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves & ex-slaves, conspirators, & those on the losing side of Rome’s glorious conquests. Like the best detectives, Beard sifts fact from fiction, myth & propaganda from historical record, refusing either simple admiration or blanket condemnation. Far from being frozen in marble, Roman history, she shows, is constantly being revised & rewritten as our knowledge expands. Indeed, our perceptions of ancient Rome have changed dramatically over the last 50 years, & "S.P.Q.R.", w/ its nuanced attention to class inequality, democratic struggles, & the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, promises to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MARY BEARD, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University & Classics editor of the TLS, is the author of the best-selling "The Fires of Vesuvius". Professor Beard delivered the 6-part A. W. Mellon Lectures in Washington, D.C. in 2011. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, she lectures internationally & lives in Cambridge, England.* SHIPPING: FREE Domestic USPS MEDIA MAIL.…

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Título
S.P.Q.R., A History of Ancient Rome
Autor
Beard, Mary
Editorial
Liveright, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London
Año de publicación
2015
Estado
New
Sobrecubierta
New
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0871404230
ISBN 13
9780871404237
Edición
Stated First Edition
Impresión
1st Printing
Peso del artículo
1,72 kilogramos

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