Nero (Paperback) /anglais - Couverture souple

Opper, Thorsten

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714122912 ISBN 13 : 9780714122915

Editeur : British Museum Press, 2021

Synopsis

Nero, 9780714122915

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thorsten Opper is a curator of Greek and Roman Sculpture at the British Museum, specializing in ancient portraiture, the Greek world in the Roman period, and the collecting and restoration of ancient sculpture in the eighteenth century. Thorsten joined the British Museum in 2001 from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. His previous publications include Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (London, British Museum Press, 2008).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54–68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a reputation has, however, been shaped by ancient literary sources written by his adversaries and enemies and, in light of new research, can be considered crudely reductive. This publication, and the exhibition it accompanies, redresses the balance and provides a more nuanced interpretation of Nero’s reign and Roman society of the time, reflecting on the traditional perceptions of his rule and revealing the challenges with which the young heir to Claudius’ empire had to contend.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Museum Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0714122912
• ISBN 13: 9780714122915
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible