| Description |
1 online resource (606 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
The history of Rome -- Cicero's finest hour -- In the beginning -- The kings of Rome -- Rome's great leap forward -- A wider world -- New politics -- From empire to emperors -- The home front -- The transformations of Augustus -- Fourteen emperors -- The haves and have-nots -- Rome outside Rome -- The first Roman millennium |
| Summary |
A sweeping, revisionisthistory of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. -- S.P.Q.R. From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 ce--nearly a thousand years later--when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire, -- S.P.Q.R. Like the best detectives, Beard sifts fact from fiction, myth and 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 and rewritten as our knowledge expands. Indeed, our perceptions of ancient Rome have changed dramatically over the last fifty years, and S.P.Q.R., with its nuanced attention to class inequality, democratic struggles, and 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-562) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Rome -- Kings, 753-510 B.C.
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Rome -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.
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Rome -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Kings, 753-510 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115111
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115114
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128
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Rome (Empire)
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Rome -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847654410 |
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184765441X |
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9781631491252 |
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1631491253 |
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