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Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History, with Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva & Trajan
de Anthony Birley
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Used Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140443088
- ISBN 13
- 9780140443080
- Librería
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Penguin Classics, June 1976. Trade Paperback. Used Good. Wear to cover, bumped corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.
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El Jun 13 2011, MarkMilner dijo:
This is an odd one. It's maybe a literary forgery or hoax, but it's also a valuable source for this period of rome; the stuff it assumes you know for granted - Herodian's wall across England, for example - is an interesting mix of history from the Roman Empire while the stuff it tells you is more or less false.On one hand, it's nice that Anthony Birley has taken the time to annotate the hell out of this thing, marking off what's fiction (and sometimes pointing out what really happened), especially when he elaborates on an odd statement in the middle of something completely fake. On the other, he only translated the first half of the MSS this came from. Where does this book stand? More or less where Birley assumes it's supposed to: as a sequel to Suetonus. It spreads unflattering truths and insane fiction about the dirt of some really depraved guys like Commodus and Elagabalus while heaping praise on nicer people like Marcus Aurelius. He even goes into the usurpers, of which there are more than a few, all of whom meet the same fate. On the whole, it's a fascinating and weird book but one which does a good job at painting Rome's leaders in a period of crisis, both from within and without; the whole time I'm read this, I kept thinking this would have been a killer third season for HBO's Rome. If you liked The Twelve Caesars, you'll like this. Otherwise, start there first
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- Librería
- Firefly Bookstore LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 310209
- Título
- Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History, with Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva & Trajan
- Autor
- Anthony Birley
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Used Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0140443088
- ISBN 13
- 9780140443080
- Editorial
- Penguin Classics
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- June 1976
- Páginas
- 336
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History/Ancient Rome;
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