Ancient Rome, the Rise and Fall of an Empire - Hardcover

Baker, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0563493607 ISBN 13: 9780563493600

Verlag: Random House UK, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Focusing on the six turning points that helped shape Roman history, this book charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower - a political machine unmatched in its brutality and its lust for power. It also looks at the characters of some of the most powerful rulers in history: men such as Pompey, Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Simon Baker read Classics at Oxford University. In 1999 he joined the BBC's award-winning History Unit where he has worked on Timewatch and a wide range of programmes about the classical world. He was the Development Producer on the BBC One series Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire. This is his second book.

Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Newnham College. She has written widely on the history and culture of the ancient (and modern) world. Her most recent books are The Parthenon and (with Keith Hopkins) The Colosseum. She is Classics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and her major study of the Roman Triumph was published by Harvard University Press in 2007.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0563493607
• ISBN 13: 9780563493600
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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