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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments

Paul Roberts
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25/11/2024
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What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, who built a monument and why mattered as much as its physical structure. Over centuries and under many different emperors, a small village in Italy was transformed into the crowning glory of an empire. Seeking out the personalities behind the great building projects is key to understanding them.

With this firmly in mind, Paul Roberts takes the reader on a tour of ancient Rome, vividly evoking the sights and sounds of the city: from the roar of the crowds at the Circus Maximus and the Colosseum, to the dazzling gleam of the marble- and mosaic-covered baths of Caracalla and Diocletian. He tells this story emperor by emperor, drawing out the political, social and cultural backdrop to the monuments and ultimately the very human motivations that gave rise to their construction – and destruction. These fascinating buildings are further brought to life with reconstructions that show how the ancients themselves would have experienced them.

When and why were these monuments built? What did they add to the lives of the people who used them? What impact did they have on the shape of the city? Roberts expertly weaves together the latest archaeological research with social and cultural history, to tell the story of the Eternal City, always in some way rising, falling and being rebuilt.

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Dane bibliograficzne / Bibliographic info
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Type of product książka / book
Dział / Department Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
Autor / Author Paul Roberts
Tytuł / Title Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
Język / Language angielski
Wydawca / Publisher Thames and Hudson
Rok wydania / Published in year 2024
Rodzaj oprawy / Binding type Twarda z obwolutą
Wymiary / Size 19.0x25.5
Liczba stron / Number of pages 256
Ciężar / Weight 1.075 kg
   
ISBN 9780500025680 (9780500025680)
EAN/UPC 9780500025680
Stan produktu / Condition nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty

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