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Colosseum

Hopkins, Keith Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846684708
Publisert
2011-04-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
160 gr
Høyde
128 mm
Bredde
194 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Hopkins, Keith
Beard, Mary

Biographical note

KEITH HOPKINS was Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge and Vice-Provost of King's College. MARY BEARD is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. Her books include the acclaimed The Roman Triumph and The Parthenon (in the Wonders of the World series of which she is general editor). She is also the award winning author of Pompeii, which was a BBC documentary.

Colosseum

Hopkins, Keith Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
Hopkins, Keith Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
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Brilliant ... arguably the best so far in Profile's excellent Wonders of the World series ... it brings the Colosseum to life in all its gory splendour.

Geographical

A work of scholarship written with the general reader in mind ... a pleasure to read.

Spectator

What the authors have given us in the proverbial multum in parvo

Sunday Telegraph

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Revels in the accretions of detail and myth ... first-class scholarship and an engagingly demotic style

Independent

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.

- Lindsey Davis, author of the Falco series,

A wonderful book, worthy of its subject: horrifying, impressive, blood-soaked, occasionally very funny and always entertaining

- Robert Harris,

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.
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The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. The author tells 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, and the emperors who staged them and the critics.
Les mer
Brilliant ... arguably the best so far in Profile's excellent Wonders of the World series ... it brings the Colosseum to life in all its gory splendour.
Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena

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Brilliant ... arguably the best so far in Profile's excellent Wonders of the World series ... it brings the Colosseum to life in all its gory splendour.

Geographical

A work of scholarship written with the general reader in mind ... a pleasure to read.

Spectator

What the authors have given us in the proverbial multum in parvo

Sunday Telegraph

Se alle

Revels in the accretions of detail and myth ... first-class scholarship and an engagingly demotic style

Independent

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.

- Lindsey Davis, author of the Falco series,

A wonderful book, worthy of its subject: horrifying, impressive, blood-soaked, occasionally very funny and always entertaining

- Robert Harris,

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.
Les mer
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. The author tells 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, and the emperors who staged them and the critics.
Les mer
Brilliant ... arguably the best so far in Profile's excellent Wonders of the World series ... it brings the Colosseum to life in all its gory splendour.
Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846684708
Publisert
2011-04-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
160 gr
Høyde
128 mm
Bredde
194 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Hopkins, Keith
Beard, Mary

Biographical note

KEITH HOPKINS was Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge and Vice-Provost of King's College. MARY BEARD is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. Her books include the acclaimed The Roman Triumph and The Parthenon (in the Wonders of the World series of which she is general editor). She is also the award winning author of Pompeii, which was a BBC documentary.

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