Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everitt (2009, Hardcover)
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- ISBN
- 9781400066629
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
140006662X
ISBN-13
9781400066629
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038863050
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / General, Ancient / Rome, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
28 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-005683
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Excellent . . . highly recommended . . . a skillfully analyzed and well-researched narrative." - Library Journal "One gets a clear and compelling sense of Hadrian's times." - The New Yorker "[A] skillful portrait . . . The author of biographies of Augustus and Cicero, British scholar Everitt now combines academic expertise with lively prose in a satisfying account of the emperor." - Publishers Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition., "Excellent . . . highly recommended . . . a skillfully analyzed and well-researched narrative." - Library Journal "One gets a clear and compelling sense of Hadrian's times." - The New Yorker "[A] skillful portrait . . . The author of biographies of Augustus and Cicero, British scholar Everitt now combines academic expertise with lively prose in a satisfying account of the emperor." - Publishers Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition., "Excellent . . . highly recommended . . . a skillfully analyzed and well-researched narrative." -Library Journal "One gets a clear and compelling sense of Hadrian's times." -The New Yorker "[A] skillful portrait . . . The author of biographies of Augustus and Cicero, British scholar Everitt now combines academic expertise with lively prose in a satisfying account of the emperor." -Publishers Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
937/.07092 B
Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of "Augustus" comes the first major account of the emperor Hadrian in nearly a century. Everitt presents a compelling, richly researched biography of the man whom he calls arguably the most successful of Rome's rulers., Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whoseAugustuswas praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis," is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. InHadrian and the Triumph of Romethe first major account of the emperor in nearly a centuryEveritt presents a compelling, richly researched biography of the man whom he calls arguably "the most successful of Rome's rulers." Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian's thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance. Hadrian was brave and astutedespite his sometimes prickly demeanoras well as an accomplished huntsman, poet, and student of philosophy. What distinguished Hadrian's rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire's long and prosperous future: He ended Rome's territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively "Hellenized" Rome by anointing Athens the empire's cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life. With unprecedented detail, Everitt illuminates Hadrian's private life, including his marriage to Sabinaa loveless, frequently unhappy bond that bore no heirsand his enduring yet doomed relationship with the true love of his life, Antinous, a beautiful young Bithynian man. Everitt also covers Hadrian's war against the Jews, which planted the seeds of present-day discord in the Middle East. Despite his tremendous legacyincluding a virtual "marble biography" of still-standing structuresHadrian is considered one of Rome's more enigmatic emperors. But making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.
LC Classification Number
DG295.E84 2009
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