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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Of great interest to read a young 'great's' lecture notes. Not brilliant as a reference work, but utterly fascinating to see a great mind in action in its formative years. The more modern translation makes it more readable, though the lecture note style did take a bit of getting used to. Very choppy at first with the logical connection between sentences not always clear. He doesn't hesitate to make his likes and dislikes clear, though some of them were quite surprising with quite different views of some characters than one is used to. A scholarly game of telephone. Mommsen wrote a famous history of Rome up to the time of Julius Caesar, winning a Nobel Prize in due course. He never wrote about the imperial period. He did, however, give lectures about it. His students took notes at these lectures, as students are occasionally wont to do, even today. Some of the students discussed these lectures with their parents, who, themselves, jotted down notes of these conversations, probably to reassure themselves that their money wasn't going down a rathole. A century later, along came what Gore Vidal likes to call the "scholar squirrels," who gathered up these assorted nuts, I mean notes, added notes of their own, and then published the results to much acclaim and almost certain tenure. Meanwhile, visitors to Mommsen's grave at the Cemetery of the Dreifaltigkeitsgemeinde often hear an odd whirring noise, gradually growing fainter and fainter over the days and months. A small sign informs them that it is, indeed, Mommsen, spinning so furiously that he is now nearly half way to the earth's core. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
This book caused a sensation when it was published in Germany in 1992, and was front page news in many newspapers. For readers of English, it will be an authoritative survey of four centuries of Roman history, and a unique window on the German tradition of the last century. Theodor Mommsen (d. 1903) was one of the greatest Roman historians of the nineteenth century, and the only one ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His fame rests on his History of Rome as well as his work on Roman law and on the Roman provinces. But the work that would have concluded his history of Rome - which ran to the reign of Augustus - was never completed. This book represents that great lost work. In 1980 Alexander Demandt discovered in an antiquarian bookshop a full and detailed handwritten transcript of the lectures on the Roman Empire, which Mommsen gave for many years from 1863 to 1886, made by two of his students. This transcript has been edited to provide the authoritative reconstruction of the book Mommsen never wrote, A History of Rome Under the Emperors. Barbara and Alexander Demandt have carefully edited the text and provided detailed annotation and explanatory references. For the English edition, Professor Thomas Wiedemann has written an introduction which surveys Mommsen's position and influence in nineteenth century German scholarship and introduces his work for English speaking readers. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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