The Colosseum. Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard - Couverture souple

Hopkins, Keith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846684706 ISBN 13 : 9781846684708

Editeur : Profile Books, 2011

Synopsis

The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of the gladiators; the audiences who revelled in the games, the emperors who staged them and the critics. And the strange after story - the Colosseum has been fort, store, church, and glue factory.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Keith Hopkins was Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge from 1985 to 2000 and Vice-Provost of King's College. He died in 2004.

Mary Beard is one of the most original and best-known classicists working today. She is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include the Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008) and the best-selling SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (2015). Her popular TLS blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. Her latest book is Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846684706
• ISBN 13: 9781846684708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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