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Chargement... Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (original 2001; édition 2003)par Anthony Everitt
Information sur l'oeuvreCicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician par Anthony Everitt (2001)
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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. It's not a bad biography, but at least a quarter of the content is just rehashing the Caesar situation. Perhaps unavoidable given the popsci format - not being able to assume the reader knows anything at all about history, but at the same time for someone to pick up a biography on Cicero as their first read on this era seems ridiculous. Having the subject of your biography become a background character during large parts of the book didn't work for me. ( )
Despite some nasty howlers in the Latin (why bother to use Latin words if you, or your editors, can’t get them right?), it turns into a businesslike tale, told with a sometimes engaging enthusiasm for its subject and a good eye for the spicier detail of late Republican life. At the same time, like most modern biographies of Cicero, it is also consistently disappointing. Everitt’s conventional ‘back-to-the-ancient-sources’ approach leaves him repeatedly at the mercy of the biographical and cultural assumptions of the one surviving ancient biography. Contient une étude deDistinctions
In this biography Anthony Everitt brings to life the world of ancient Rome in its glorious heyday. Cicero squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised Pompey on his botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was the master of the smear campaign, as feared for his wit as he was for exposing his opponents' sexual peccadilloes. Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a terrible gossip, and a genius of political manipulation, Cicero was Rome's most revered politician, one of the greatest statesmen of all time. Accessible to us through unguarded letters written to his best friend, Atticus, Cicero emerges as a witty and resourceful political manipulator, the most eloquent witness to the last days of Republican Rome. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)937.05092History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Civil strife 146-21 B.C. BiographyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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