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Chargement... Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome (2022)par Anthony Everitt
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Excellent presentation biography on the strange Roman emperor who muddled his way to his eventual demise leaving a legacy of not much. The book covers every aspect of Nero's rise primarily through his mother Agrippina. He was fortunate to have Seneca as his tutor as a young man and into his ascendency to rule. But as with most things Nero he squandered the wise counsel of this important Stoic. And yes Rome burned under his rule but he did not seem to fiddle but played some sort of harp. He really was a performer at heart yearning for the stage and the chariot but even with this he underperformed. A good and entertaining read for those interested in Rome at its power pinnacle and the failings of its leadership to maintain such. ( ) Very thorough autobiography, a substantial section of which discusses aspects of previous emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius for context. In fact, there is actually a good discussion of Caesar's brief campaigns in Britain which serves as an introduction into Nero's later involvement. Two minor complaints are that (1) the author unnecessarily uses foreign phrases presumably to impress the reader with his knowledge of French, and (2) has an off-putting obsession with needless references to alleged sexual deviances.
"At times, that split-brain phenomenon seems to define the latest mainstream attempt along these lines, Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth, out now from Random House, and sometimes it looks alarmingly literal." "The authors present a portrait that is decidedly less skeptical of the ancient historians than many other similar histories, and it makes for page-turning, informative reading for students of the era." "Though Everitt and Ashworth don’t break much new ground, they evoke the period with wit and precision. Ancient history buffs will be pleased."
"The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of his day despised him, and it's their recollections that have been passed down through the ages. But, in all of the horror, there is a mystery. For a long time after his deposition and suicide, anonymous hands laid flowers on his grave. The monster was loved. In this nuanced biography, Anthony Everitt, the celebrated biographer of classical Greece and Rome, reveals the contradictions inherent in the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus and offers a reappraisal of his life. Everitt also brings ancient Rome to life, showing the crowded streets that made the city prone to fires, political intrigues that could turn deadly in an instant, and vast building projects that continuously remade the Roman landscape. In this teeming and politically unstable world, Nero did terrible things, but the larger empire was also well managed under his rule. He presided over a diplomatic triumph with the rival Parthian empire, and Everitt teams up with investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth to tell the epic story of Rome's conquest of Britain and British queen Boudica's doomed revolt against Nero's legions. Nero was also a champion of arts and culture whose own great love was music, and he won the loyalty of the lower classes with great spectacles. In many ways he was ahead of his time, particularly in the way he looked to Greece and the eastern half of the empire as crucial to Rome's future. Nero had a vision for Rome, but, wracked by insecurity and guilt-ridden over assassinations he ordered, perhaps he never really had the stomach to rule it"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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