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Ancient Rome is a magnificent volume that traces the dramatic history of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to its rise and fall and its lasting social, cultural, military, and political influence. From great feats and everyday customs, to works of art and household objects, this comprehensive account offers a fascinating insight into the highly complex and sophisticated society that once ruled the world. Authoritative text by Anna Maria Liberati and Fabio Bourbon analyzes the development of the Roman Empire by examining all aspects of the Eternal City including the economic, legal, and military system of the conquered regions; the organization of the most powerful army in the ancient world; the town-planning problems and successes; the construction systems used to erect the great Roman public monuments; and even the smallest curiosities of everyday life.
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The cultural legacy of ancient Rome is made tangible in this extraordinary album, which combines hundreds of magnificent color photographs with an overview of Rome's political history, relentless expansion, daily life, artistic blossoming and decline. Liberati, a scholar at the Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome, and Bourbon, an Italian archeologist and art historian, have produced an album that will delight and reward both novices and specialists. Aided by color maps, dramatic aerial and on-site photographs and highly detailed color drawings, they chart the young republic's transformation into an unwieldy empire, its intensive exploitation of the lands it conquered, its architecture, literary and philosophical culture. A particularly valuable section documents the spread of Roman civilization from Gaul and Germanycornerstones of the empireto far-flung outposts like Britannia, the Danube provinces, Iberia, Syria and Armenia. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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The attractions of antiquity are evident in this troika, consisting of two books for looking and one for reading. Bridges presents about 70 of her black-and-white aerial images of monuments. She flew, a privilege apparently rarely granted, over the usual suspects: the pyramids and Sphinx at Giza, the temple at Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, and Ramses' statues to himself at Abu Simbel. Bridges also strayed from those beaten paths to make artful compositions of lesser-known ruins, which get, as do their more famous cousins, the full-page glossy treatment. Good enough as eye candy, but for context, library patrons may turn to the intellectually more substantial Freeman. Freeman's succinctly and crisply written introduction to the ancient Mediterranean adds Egypt to the standard Greco-Roman nexus. Covering an immense variety of material with competence and sensitivity to nuance, Freeman relates the familiar parts of the classical story, but his is no mere rehash of the Persian War or the fall of the Roman Republic. He analytically recounts political events, religious movements, and society, with steady awareness of the fragmented character of the surviving evidence. Still, Freeman hasn't forgotten that popularity presupposes pace, and his narrative moves steadily, intriguingly, and informatively. It incorporates up-to-date scholarship and will benefit any library needing a general overview. Had the Romans known coffee, they might have invented an appropriate table to accommodate the oversize Liberati album, which handsomely shows off the ruins of the city. Designed to "familiarize even the least expert readers" with the ancient monuments and artwork, the lavish layout also proves fascinating to those who've already learned about the Coliseum or the Column of Trajan. Nearly 400 color photographs and drawings survey the Eternal City's major tourist attractions, as well as the best surviving examples of Roman architecture strewn around the empire, the Pont du Gard to name one. The text is captionlike but knowledgeable and complements this pop-oriented volume. --Gilbert Taylor