The Colosseum
Autor Professor Keith Hopkins, Professor Mary Bearden Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 apr 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1846684706
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 194 x 128 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
A work of scholarship written with the general reader in mind ... a pleasure to read.
What the authors have given us in the proverbial multum in parvo
Revels in the accretions of detail and myth ... first-class scholarship and an engagingly demotic style
Stirring stuff! This is a welcome and well-written book ... it reassesses myths, politely debunks many misconceptions about what we know- and what we don't know - to put the fabulous monument in context from its founding to the present.
A wonderful book, worthy of its subject: horrifying, impressive, blood-soaked, occasionally very funny and always entertaining
Descriere
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them).
Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of the gladiators; the audiences who revelled in the games, the emperors who staged them and the critics. And the strange after story - the Colosseum has been fort, store, church, and glue factory.