Emperador de Roma / Emperor of Rome

Fan嫢icos del control, adictos al trabajo o adolescentes malcriados? C鏔o eran realmente los emperadores de Roma?

En SPQR, Mary Beard narr?la historia milenaria de la antigua Roma. En este nuevo libro centra su atenci鏮 en los emperadores que gobernaron el Imperio romano para darnos una versi鏮 matizada y m嫳 precisa de estas glorificadas figuras cl嫳icas. Desde Julio C廥ar (asesinado en el 44 a.C.) hasta Alejandro Severo (asesinado en el 235 d.C.), pasando por el loco de Cal璲ula, el monstruoso Ner鏮 y el fil鏀ofo Marco Aurelio, Mary Beard recorre la vida y los mitos de los grandes gobernantes romanos y nos plantea grandes preguntas: qu?poder real ostentaban los emperadores?, qui幯 mov燰 los hilos entre bambalinas?, c鏔o se gobernaba un imperio tan vasto?, realmente estaban las paredes de palacio tan manchadas de sangre?

Para darnos respuesta y acercarnos un poco m嫳 a la realidad imperial, Mary Beard sigue los pasos del emperador de cerca: en su hogar y en las carreras, en sus viajes e, incluso, de camino hacia el cielo; nos presenta a sus esposas y amantes, a sus rivales y esclavos, a los bufones y soldados de la corte y a la gente corriente que le entregaba cartas de slica. Emperador de Roma nos lleva directamente hasta el coraz鏮 de Roma, y de nuestras fantas燰s sobre lo que era ser romano, a trav廥 de un relato como nunca antes se hab燰 contado.

Un relato arrollador del mundo social y pol癃ico de los emperadores romanos por "la clasicista m嫳 famosa del mundo" . --The Guardian

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, The Economist, Smithsonian

Most Anticipated Books of Fall: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Literary Hub, and Publishers Weekly

"A vivid way to re-examine what we know, and don't, about life at the top.... Emperor of Rome is a masterly group portrait, an invitation to think skeptically but not contemptuously of a familiar civilization." ―Kyle Harper, Wall Street Journal

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by "the world's most famous classicist" ―The Guardian.

In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries―and some thirty emperors―that separate him from the boy-king Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE).

Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? What kind of jokes did Augustus tell? And for that matter, what really happened, for example, between the emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard tracks the emperor down at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven.

With its finely nuanced portrayal of sex, class, and politics, Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman fantasies (and our own) about what it was to be Roman at its richest, most luxurious, most extreme, most powerful, and most deadly, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

160 images, 16 page color insert.