Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller - Hardcover

Beard, Professor Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846683785 ISBN 13: 9781846683787

Verlag: Profile Books, 2023

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A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)

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Mary Beard is the most acclaimed classicist working today. She is the Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge and is the Classics editor of the TLS. She is also the co-host, with Charlotte Higgins, of the podcast Instant Classics. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii as well as Confronting the Classics, SPQR, Women & Power and Emperor of Rome. Her work has been published in over 35 languages.

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In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE).

Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained?

Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

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• Verlag: Profile Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1846683785
• ISBN 13: 9781846683787
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
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