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  • Nerone

    Traducido por Mario Carpitella ...
    Champlin racconta Nerone: un imperatore consapevole di sé e del suo ruolo, un esteta spregiudicato dedito alla vita come a un'opera d’arte.Champlin rivela un Nerone artista della propria immagine, inventore del proprio mito. E da una vicenda grandiosa e orrenda emerge un lucido progetto per l'eternità.Andrea GiardinaUna stimolante ‘psicografia’. Nerone, dice Champlin, aveva forse scoperto l'arcano ... Leer más

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  • Nero

    The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sense of his audience. Nero murdered his younger brother and rival to the throne, probably at his ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Tiberius and His Age

    Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power

    A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperorRome’s second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE–CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that Tiberius was—and was seen by contemporaries to be—recognizably human and far more complex than the ... Leer más

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    Often cited as one of the first works in modern political philosophy, The Prince is a political treatise that relates author Niccolo Machiavelli’s theories on state-building and rulership. Drawing on his experience as a diplomat, Machiavelli discusses the important policies for both republican free-states and hereditary princedoms, and outlines the most successful political tactics, many of which ... Leer más

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  • Daily Life in Ancient Rome - The People and the City at the Height of the Empire

    Step back in time to the bustling heart of the Roman Empire with Jerome Carcopino's "Daily Life in Ancient Rome." This classic work offers an unparalleled glimpse into the intricacies of Roman society at its zenith, vividly detailing the lives of emperors, senators, merchants, and the enslaved alike. Carcopino meticulously reconstructs the rhythms of daily existence, from the morning rituals in ... Leer más

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  • Dying Every Day

    Seneca at the Court of Nero

    de James Romm ...
    From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne (“Gripping . . . the narrative verve of a born writer and the erudition of a scholar” —Daniel Mendelsohn) and editor of The Landmark Arrian:The Campaign of Alexander (“Thrilling” —The New York Times Book Review), a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale.At the ... Leer más

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  • Livia

    First Lady of Imperial Rome

    The author of Rome Is Burning separates fact from fiction as he examines the life of an ancient Roman figure made famous in the TV miniseries I Claudius.Livia—wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius—wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a ... Leer más

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  • Agrippina

    Mother of Nero

    Series series Roman Imperial Biographies
    In this dynamic new biography - the first on Agrippina in English - Professor Barrett uses the latest archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence to provide a close and detailed study of her life and career. He shows how Agrippina's political contribution to her time seems in fact to have been positive, and that when she is judged by her achievements she demands admiration. Revealing the ... Leer más

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  • Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook

    Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a ... Leer más

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  • A Critical History of Early Rome

    From Prehistory to the First Punic War

    de Gary Forsythe ...
    During the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans in large measure developed the social, political, and military structure that would be the foundation of their spectacular imperial success. In this comprehensive and clearly written account, Gary Forsythe draws extensively from historical, archaeological, ... Leer más

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  • Rome Is Burning

    Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty

    Series series Turning Points in Ancient History
    Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire—and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman EmpireAccording to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It’s a story that has been told for more than two millennia—and it’s likely that almost none of it is true. ... Leer más

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  • Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons

    Women in Roman Religion

    A fascinating exploration of women's role in Roman religion that facilitates a better understanding of their importance in Rome's cultural formation.Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public ... Leer más

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