安东尼·A.巴雷特（Anthony A. Barrett），加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学历史学荣休教授。

安东尼·A.巴雷特（Anthony A. Barrett），加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学历史学荣休教授。

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the “Sea Peoples” invaded Egypt. The pharaoh’s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes ov...(展开全部)

A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Sp...(展开全部)

A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Sp...(展开全部)

Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new loo...(展开全部)

玛丽·比尔德（Mary Beard），英国著名古典学家，剑桥大学古典学教授，由于她对古典文明研究做出的长期贡献，2018年受封爵士。她长期担任《泰晤士报文学增刊》的古典学编辑，她的博客“一个剑桥教授的生活”广受欢迎，并与英国广播公司合作拍摄了多部与古罗马和古代文明相关的 纪录片。主要著作：《罗马宗教》（Religions of Rome, 1998）、《罗马凯旋式》（The Roman Triumph, 2007）、《庞贝：一座罗马城市的生活》（Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town, 2008）。其中《庞贝》一书荣获2009年沃尔夫森历史奖。 译者王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译作有《黑死病》《骑士之爱与游吟诗人》《论欧洲》《拷问法国大革命》《古典传统》等。

Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new loo...(展开全部)

大卫·波特 密歇根大学希腊和拉丁语终身教席教授（FrancisW.KelseyCollegiateProfessor，ArthurF.ThurnauProfessor）。他是国际上知名的罗马帝国史学术权威，也是许多学术文章和书籍的作者。

王德威 . 國立台灣大學外文系畢業，美國威斯康辛大學麥迪遜校區比較文學博士。曾任教於國立台灣大學、美國哥倫比亞大學東亞系。現任美國哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系Edward C. Henderson講座教授。著有：《從劉鶚到王禎和：中國現代寫實小說散論》、《眾聲喧嘩：三○與八○年代的中國小說》、《閱讀當代小說：台灣．大陸．香港．海外》、《小說中國：晚清到當代的中文小說》、《想像中國的方法：歷史．小說．敘事》、《如何現代，怎樣文學？：十九、二十世紀中文小說新論》、《眾聲喧嘩以後：點評當代中文小說》、《跨世紀風華：當代小說20家》、《被壓抑的現代性：晚清小說新論》、《現代中國小說十講》、《歷史與怪獸》、Fictional Realism in Twentieth-century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen, Fi...(展开全部)