The Resource SPQR : a history of ancient Rome, Mary Beard
SPQR : a history of ancient Rome, Mary Beard
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- Summary
- "Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In S.P.Q.R., world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. 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. (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 bce with the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline and Cicero, the renowned politician and orator, Beard animates this "terrorist conspiracy," which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy and autocracy that would come to define much of Rome's subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters--Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others--while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests." -- Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 606 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Prologue : 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
- Epilogue : the first Roman millennium
- Isbn
- 9780871404237
- Label
- SPQR : a history of ancient Rome
- Title
- SPQR
- Title remainder
- a history of ancient Rome
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Beard
- Title variation
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- Senatus populusque Romanus
- History of ancient Rome
- Subject
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- trueRoman law
- trueRomans
- trueRome -- History
- trueRome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
- trueRome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C
- trueSlaves -- Legal status, laws, etc
- trueSlaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rome
- trueWomen -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rome
- trueRome -- History -- Kings, 753-510 B.C
- trueAncient history
- trueCitizenship -- Philosophy
- trueCivilization, Classical
- trueCivilization, Greco-Roman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In S.P.Q.R., world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. 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. (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 bce with the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline and Cicero, the renowned politician and orator, Beard animates this "terrorist conspiracy," which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy and autocracy that would come to define much of Rome's subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters--Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others--while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests." -- Publisher's description
- Award
-
- Library Journal Best Books, 2015.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2015
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10440288
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1955-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Beard, Mary
- Dewey number
- 937
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DG231
- LC item number
- .B43 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rome
- Rome
- Rome
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a history of ancient Rome
- Label
- SPQR : a history of ancient Rome, Mary Beard
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-562) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : 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 -- Epilogue : the first Roman millennium
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 606 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780871404237
- Lccn
- 2015036060
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
-
- 902661394
- (OCoLC)902661394
- Label
- SPQR : a history of ancient Rome, Mary Beard
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-562) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : 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 -- Epilogue : the first Roman millennium
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 606 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780871404237
- Lccn
- 2015036060
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
-
- 902661394
- (OCoLC)902661394
Subject
- trueRoman law
- trueRomans
- trueRome -- History
- trueRome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
- trueRome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C
- trueSlaves -- Legal status, laws, etc
- trueSlaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rome
- trueWomen -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rome
- trueRome -- History -- Kings, 753-510 B.C
- trueAncient history
- trueCitizenship -- Philosophy
- trueCivilization, Classical
- trueCivilization, Greco-Roman
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Culture
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Nonfiction: 2015
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2015
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