Overview
ĀæFanĆ”ticos del control, adictos al trabajo o adolescentes malcriados? ĀæCĆ³mo eran realmente los emperadores de Roma?
En SPQR, Mary Beard narrĆ³ la historia milenaria de la antigua Roma. En este nuevo libro centra su atenciĆ³n en los emperadores que gobernaron el Imperio romano para darnos una versiĆ³n matizada y mĆ”s precisa de estas glorificadas figuras clĆ”sicas. Desde Julio CĆ©sar (asesinado en el 44 a.C.) hasta Alejandro Severo (asesinado en el 235 d.C.), pasando por el loco de CalĆgula, el monstruoso NerĆ³n y el filĆ³sofo Marco Aurelio, Mary Beard recorre la vida y los mitos de los grandes gobernantes romanos y nos plantea grandes preguntas: ĀæquĆ© poder real ostentaban los emperadores?, ĀæquiĆ©n movĆa los hilos entre bambalinas?, ĀæcĆ³mo se gobernaba un imperio tan vasto?, Āærealmente estaban las paredes de palacio tan manchadas de sangre?
Para darnos respuesta y acercarnos un poco mĆ”s a la realidad imperial, Mary Beard sigue los pasos del emperador de cerca: en su hogar y en las carreras, en sus viajes e, incluso, de camino hacia el cielo; nos presenta a sus esposas y amantes, a sus rivales y esclavos, a los bufones y soldados de la corte y a la gente corriente que le entregaba cartas de sĆŗplica. Emperador de Roma nos lleva directamente hasta el corazĆ³n de Roma, y de nuestras fantasĆas sobre lo que era ser romano, a travĆ©s de un relato como nunca antes se habĆa contado.
Ā«Un relato arrollador del mundo social y polĆtico de los emperadores romanos por "la clasicista mĆ”s famosa del mundo"Ā». āThe Guardian
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"A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and donāt, about life at the top.... Emperor of Rome is a masterly group portrait, an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar civilization." āKyle Harper, Wall Street Journal
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by āthe worldās most famous classicistāĀ āThe Guardian.
In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuriesāand some thirty emperorsāthat separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE).
Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven.
With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.
160 images, 16 page color insert.
This book title, Emperador de Roma / Emperor of Rome, ISBN: 9786075696126, by Mary Beard, published by Planeta Publishing Corp (March 26, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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