Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (originale 2001; edizione 2002)di Anthony Everitt
Informazioni sull'operaCicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician di Anthony Everitt (2001)
Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. Menzioni
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)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. BiographyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
Sometimes too detailed inf u r not roman scholar. ( )