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Chargement... Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome (édition 1995)par Chris Scarre, Christopher Scarre
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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. I am generally not a fan of works which are surveys of large periods. Nonetheless, this book reads as well as one could expect when covering each emperor from Augustus until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th Century. Obviously each biography is very brief, although the materials are supplemented with helpful photographs, map and inserts containing interesting anecdotes. 2845 Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome, by Chris Scarre (read 29 Feb 1996) This is really a reference book, lavishly illustrated, with time lines and genealogical tables. Very well done, but really not designed to be read from first page to last, as I did. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome, brought to life using the colorful testimony of contemporary authors. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Each short biography starts out with photographs of busts and/or coin portraits of the individual emperors and quotations from Roman historians, and there are also sidebars with information about dates of birth, accession and death, and imperial titles – which gives you a quick overview - and their genealogical trees are given whenever it is relevant. The bias of earlier historians are discussed, and I thought this was handled really well also in connection with the tensions between paganism and Christianity. Scarre has done a great job in his descriptions and discussions of the personal qualities of each emperor; be it in warfare, in private, public and religious life, or as reformers or builders - and the waxing and waning of the empire is presented clearly and with good maps, though there could perhaps have been a few more of them. Then again there could have been more of almost everything (after all this book covers a period of nearly 500 years) but then that would also have been an entirely different book. This works perfectly well as it is, and as a basic introduction I’d recommend it for anyone.
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