Julio-Claudian Building Programmes: A Study in Political Management

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Julio-Claudian Building Programmes: A Study in Political ManagementWith a totally original and creative approach this work provides persuasive and defensible alternative evaluations of the separate Julio Claudian emperors, sometimes to support and sometimes to denigrate the highly political and possibly biased reporting by the standard literary sources. Using a quantification and an evaluation of their social goals the book melds together the needs of the city, the personality of the emperors and their ability to

Tacitus vividly portrays the machinations of Sejanus as he attempts to manoeuvre himself into a position to assume the ultimate authority

Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present

when in exile the Orthodox church took the lead in reconstructing Byzantine society

far-reaching and often surprising take on the classical world will provoke

most of them elderly

χωρίς περικοπές κείµενο που έγραψε ο ανεξάντλητος σε φαντασία και χιούµορ Aµερικανός συγγραφέας Mαρκ Tουαίν

A man dares to stand up to a powerful sea power

Η μαμά της δεν έχει πολλή υπομονή για εξηγήσεις

though not of chaos

without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original

δε θα ήθελα ποτέ να με θεωρούν θύμα

and theories about the origin