Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life [9781846682513] and All in a Don's Day [9781846685361]. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.
Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. It explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievements, and why they are still important to us. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water, as well as exploring democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility and exploitation in the larger context of the empire, this is a definitive history of ancient Rome. SPQR is the Romans' own abbreviation for their state: Senatus Populusque Romanus, 'the Senate and People of Rome'.
發表於2025-04-26
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不同於早先愛德華·吉本厚重沉鬱的衰亡史或者鹽野七生輕靈流暢的故事史,瑪麗·比爾德給瞭我們另外一種看待羅馬曆史的角度。對《羅馬元老院與人民》的感受很難用一言兩語說清楚,所以隻能擇一些我覺得感興趣的點來說: 關於羅馬建國期間對薩賓女子的掠奪。印象比較深的是書中運...
評分 評分 評分 評分這本書不像是曆史書,更像是跟著比爾德的腳步重迴羅馬誕生的第一個韆年,親自見證偉大帝國的建立。羅馬從何而起?又從何結束?這一直是眾說紛紜的開放命題。作者從埃涅阿斯的傳說和羅慕路斯的築城故事起筆,省去瞭第二個韆年羅馬帝國緩慢衰落的過程,截取瞭從西塞羅的著名演講...
圖書標籤: 曆史 古羅馬 羅馬 古典學 英文原版 history 英語 Rome
2019/02 library 比較淺顯。
評分* Ancient Rome is important.To ignore the Romans is not just to turn a blind eye to the distant past. * I have learnt their language as well as I can. I have read a good deal of the literature they have left us. * I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly from the Romans… * But I am more and more convinced that …
評分從Romulus到Caracalla,國王(酋邦)時代到共和體製,內戰後迎接Caesar的時代,最終在羅馬公民改革中戛然而止。可讀性非常強的專欄曆史。皇帝個性的差異隻會影響少數精英人群,而與屠戮僅一綫之隔的平民生活理應更有曆史研究的價值。作者圍繞SPQR有意避開連篇纍牘的帝王傳記,轉而展開羅馬人民和社會底層的敘述,可惜曆史終究是勝利者和統治者書寫的,相關的史料隻在三四個章節中涵蓋,關於元老院本身的描繪也比預期少瞭很多。
評分太精彩瞭,曆史太好玩瞭!研究瞭五十多年的人纔能用如此通俗易懂的語言把曆史的精髓寫得淋灕盡緻吧。這麼大部頭啃完都意猶未盡。Mary Beard本人的瀟灑也很加分233333
評分買買買。再買一件印有SPQR的衛衣還有體恤衫! 這就很羅馬瞭
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