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Chargement... Sex Lives of the Roman Emperorspar Nigel Cawthorne
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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. Utter trash, obviously written to bring in quick cash by appealing to people's prurient interests. The chapters I sampled had numerous historical errors. ( ) This is, perhaps, the most annoying book I have read in a very long time. The prose style is rushed and pedestrian. It is obviously written for the general reader - so why, one asks, is it peppered with untranslated Latin quotes? To make things worse, none of the quotes is properly cited, sometimes even the author is unacknowledged. Latin phrases and words, completely unexplained, also litter the text. The sources consulted are not cited. They can only be picked up from the authors mentioned throughout the text. The writings of all these authors have all been included with no critical examination as if everything written by them is to be taken as fact, including hagiographies of saints. (To be fair, the author does refer to some of them as "gossip"). All in all, it is a useless book. Its intended audience would find it bewildering, while anyone with the knowledge needed to read the Latin would find it, as I did, simply annoying. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Takes you emperor by emperor, through the entire sexual history of ancient Rome, its mores and its literature, and lays bare, if not the heart, other organs of the civilization that laid the foundations of our own. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)937.0099History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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