Re:Ancient Rome: Inside the Emperors’ Clothes
by ableal on Saturday December 26, 2015 @05:32AM
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(A peculiar title ...)
I'll leave aside the professional historians, but if we're tossing in story telling like Tom Holland's, I'd put in a good word for John Maddox Ford's (also named) SPQR series - a dozen or so stories about a fictional character inserted in the critical final years of Roman republic. Best hard-nosed, not excessively modern look at those times I've come across.
Re:Ancient Rome: Inside the Emperors’ Clothes
by oska on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:21AM
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> Between them they have done more to promote classical studies than all the professors who try to reach thousands through the electronic programs currently known as massive open online courses (MOOCs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Romans_with_Mary_Bear...
> http://www.his.com/~z/passage.html
As a side note, see these two links for some quotes and passages from Gibbon's magnum opus. The whole work (including footnotes) is amazing.
I'll leave aside the professional historians, but if we're tossing in story telling like Tom Holland's, I'd put in a good word for John Maddox Ford's (also named) SPQR series - a dozen or so stories about a fictional character inserted in the critical final years of Roman republic. Best hard-nosed, not excessively modern look at those times I've come across.
Was this side-swipe necessary?