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Laddar... Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans But Were Afraid to Askav Peter Jones
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Roman history. Easy readability with short chapters that focus on a particular theme/event; such as, social life, law, literature, kings, emperors and imperialism. Each chapter begins with a chronology of the events described in that chapter. The book covers a broad amount of Roman history starting with the origin myth/story of Romulus and the founding/establishment of Rome in 753 BCE and finishing around the 5th century. moreover the end of the book describes the rise of Christianity in the 4th century CE and Theodosius' outlawing of Paganism and convening of the council of Constantinople (381) determining the Christian orthodoxy and establishing Christianity as the official sole Roman religion - The books final page comments on roman native tongue of Latin and the continuation of the language through the roman catholic church and also eventually education (mostly starting in Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries in cathedral and monastic schools (monasteries) ). ( ) This is a great book to dip in and out of. All about Rome and the Romans during the Classical period, Peter Jones follows things in a chronological fashion making me want to do more research about some of the things in the tale. It's a perfect book to dip your toes into Classical History or refresh your mind. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
An entertaining but authoritative history of ancient Rome, which also reveals a host of intriguing - and often surprising - aspects of Roman culture. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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