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Incorrect history of Rome.
TRAINA Giusto.

Incorrect history of Rome.

Perrin Editions
€9,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 26146
Format 11 x 18
Détails 288 p., paperback.
Publication Paris, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782262099541
From Romulus to the fall of the Empire, this book challenges our certainties about the Roman world and sometimes holds up a mirror to our contemporary concerns. Giusto Traina, in a thousand side trips that nevertheless obey a dense network of references, takes us into the mysteries of politics, religion, and immigration, and brings together great ancient and contemporary thinkers on the subject. Ignoring linguistic anachronisms, he talks to us about fake news and political spectacle, about access to citizenship between generalized asylum and closure, about paradoxical images of the Urbs , about genocides complacently displayed alongside some humanitarian speeches, about a supposed hostility to scientific progress, about representations of the limes actually constructed in the 19th century , about an extraordinary and very real capacity to manage terrible defeats (will we talk about resilience?), about the evasion of languages of the Empire other than Latin and Greek – at least up to the Christian preachers –, about the importance of prodigies and the multiplicity of local cults, or about the “barbarian invasions” and the proliferation of hypotheses on the fall of the Empire… An irreverent, fascinating and scathing story that takes us far from legends and commonplaces.
From Romulus to the fall of the Empire, this book challenges our certainties about the Roman world and sometimes holds up a mirror to our contemporary concerns. Giusto Traina, in a thousand side trips that nevertheless obey a dense network of references, takes us into the mysteries of politics, religion, and immigration, and brings together great ancient and contemporary thinkers on the subject. Ignoring linguistic anachronisms, he talks to us about fake news and political spectacle, about access to citizenship between generalized asylum and closure, about paradoxical images of the Urbs , about genocides complacently displayed alongside some humanitarian speeches, about a supposed hostility to scientific progress, about representations of the limes actually constructed in the 19th century , about an extraordinary and very real capacity to manage terrible defeats (will we talk about resilience?), about the evasion of languages of the Empire other than Latin and Greek – at least up to the Christian preachers –, about the importance of prodigies and the multiplicity of local cults, or about the “barbarian invasions” and the proliferation of hypotheses on the fall of the Empire… An irreverent, fascinating and scathing story that takes us far from legends and commonplaces.