TRAINA Giusto.
Incorrect history of Rome.
Beautiful Letters
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| N° d'inventaire | 25216 |
| Format | 12 x 19 |
| Détails | 288 pages, 31 color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251451749 |
Rome and the Roman world as they have not been told to you, and as textbooks cannot tell them.
From Romulus to the fall of the empire, this book shakes up our certainties and sometimes holds up a mirror to our contemporary concerns, speaking of fake news and political spectacle, access to citizenship between generalized asylum and closure, paradoxical images of Urbs, genocides complacently displayed alongside some humanitarian speeches, a supposed hostility to scientific progress, representations of limes actually built in the 19th century, of an extraordinary and very real capacity to manage terrible defeats (shall we speak of resilience?), of the evasion of the languages of the empire other than Latin and Greek, at least up to the Christian preachers, of the importance of the prodigies and the multiplicity of local cults, or even of the "barbarian invasions" and the proliferation of hypotheses on the fall of the empire... Erudition and familiarity combine in a fascinating and incisive story.
From Romulus to the fall of the empire, this book shakes up our certainties and sometimes holds up a mirror to our contemporary concerns, speaking of fake news and political spectacle, access to citizenship between generalized asylum and closure, paradoxical images of Urbs, genocides complacently displayed alongside some humanitarian speeches, a supposed hostility to scientific progress, representations of limes actually built in the 19th century, of an extraordinary and very real capacity to manage terrible defeats (shall we speak of resilience?), of the evasion of the languages of the empire other than Latin and Greek, at least up to the Christian preachers, of the importance of the prodigies and the multiplicity of local cults, or even of the "barbarian invasions" and the proliferation of hypotheses on the fall of the empire... Erudition and familiarity combine in a fascinating and incisive story.
From Romulus to the fall of the empire, this book shakes up our certainties and sometimes holds up a mirror to our contemporary concerns, speaking of fake news and political spectacle, access to citizenship between generalized asylum and closure, paradoxical images of Urbs, genocides complacently displayed alongside some humanitarian speeches, a supposed hostility to scientific progress, representations of limes actually built in the 19th century, of an extraordinary and very real capacity to manage terrible defeats (shall we speak of resilience?), of the evasion of the languages of the empire other than Latin and Greek, at least up to the Christian preachers, of the importance of the prodigies and the multiplicity of local cults, or even of the "barbarian invasions" and the proliferation of hypotheses on the fall of the empire... Erudition and familiarity combine in a fascinating and incisive story.