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The Roman Triumph by: Mary Beard List Price: £19.95 City Travel Guides Price: £18.95 You Save: £1.00 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 394.50937 EAN: 9780674026131 ISBN: 0674026136 Label: Harvard University Press Manufacturer: Harvard University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: November 09, 2007 Publisher: Harvard University Press Studio: Harvard University Press Sales Rank: 119527 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Just a big paradeHere is the problem, the sources are two thousand years old and generation upon generation of scholars have tilled the same soil in search of new growth. The roots are the usual suspects, the Roman literary doyens. This is supplemented by new bits of fragmented archaeology. What you have is, more or less, what you are going to get. Classical academic historians must struggle for originality, often cannibalistically devouring each other's work. The triumph was simply a procession to honour Roman military victors, display the spoils and enhance the individual's prestige getting to the top of the career ladder. It is one of the most enduring - but inaccurately depicted - images of ancient Rome. Hollywood loves it. It was a big parade, ... Read More: Rating:  - ExcellentNot only well written but interesting and incisive. It is true that knowledge of the Roman period is needed for a full understanding of the text but I feel nothing that is beyond what is possible. I Speak holding A-levels in Latin and Greek but nothing more. A whole hearted recommendation Rating: - Hypothesis - but what else could be done?Not a book for the faint hearted! A good knowledge of the Republic and the early Empire is essential to enable gain from this work. The evidence for the subject is thin, but the author demonstrates how an understanding of this aspect of Roman culture can be built up through scholarly guesswork. She is carefull to explain how her conclusions are drawn, as well as the little that can be descibed as 'fact'. |
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