A former editor of The Times Literary Supplement argues that the trajectory of Rome’s richest man presents pertinent questions about the intertwining of money, ambition, and power.
Crassus: The First Tycoon
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Edition:Hardback978030025660411/10/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Not only the art of Rome itself but of its provinces, including Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Greece and the British Isles, showing how Roman art both drew on and influenced the wider ancient world... read more
Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
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Beard on the faces of power through history. She asks why - for over two millennia - the striking, stony realism of Roman portraiture has been a touchstone for subsequent depictions of power... read more
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The beauty of the ancient world through the eyes of the great Czech photographer who, between 1991 and 2015, travelled to 20 Mediterranean countries and photographed over 200 Greek and Roman... read more
Josef Koudelka: Ruins
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A new translation of Seneca's 'On The Shortness of Life', with the Latin on facing pages and an introduction. One of three niftily pocket-sized classical guides to life.