Infamy (eBook)

The Crimes of Ancient Rome

Toner Jerry Toner (Autor)

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2019
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-124-2 (ISBN)

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Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the extent of Rome's crimes. From the sexual peccadillos of Tiberius and Nero to the chances of getting burgled if you left your apartment unguarded (pretty high, especially if the walls were thin enough to knock through) he leaves no stone unturned in his quest to bring the Eternal City to book. Meet a gallery of villains, high and low. Discover the problems that most exercised its long-suffering citizens. Explore the temptations of excess and find out what desperation can make a pleb do. What do we see when we look at Rome? A hideous vision of ancient corruption - or a reflection of our own troubled age?

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Toner's commentary ... is excellent ... This book is at its best when Toner analyses Roman attitudes to slavery, and how little they changed even when Christianity began to take hold in the ancient world ... packed with fascinating references to the earliest writings about slavery

Marcus dispenses advice with aplomb ... he is a fascinating creation

Thought-provoking and illuminating

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 8pp b/w; 8pp colour; line illustrations in text
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Schlagworte: Ancient World • arson • Bandits • Centurion • Crime • Empire • Extortion • Gangs • Graft • History • Injustice • Jerry Toner • Judges • Judiciary • Justice • Law • legions • Mafia • mugging • Nero • Roman Empire • Rome • Sidonius Falx • Slavery • Tiberius
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-124-X / 178283124X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-124-2 / 9781782831242