With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal struggles, up to Rome's recovery after the fierce Gallic invasion of the fourth century bc. Livy vividly depicts the great characters, ...(展开全部)

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. The whole work was, long a...(展开全部)

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

梅因（Henry Sumner Maine，1822-1888）是19世纪英国著名的法学家、英国现代历史法学和比较法学的奠基人。其一生经历丰富，兼涉法律实务、法学研究与时评，著述颇丰。其法学著作多以讲义形式面世，传世名著《古代法》便是由他在伦敦四大律师会馆的讲稿修订而成，甫一问世即成经典，在西方法学界的影响经久不衰。

In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable co...(展开全部)

作者｜[瑞士]卡斯帕·赫希（Caspar Hirschi） 瑞士弗里堡大学历史学博士，曾任教于苏黎世联邦理工学院人文、社会与政治科学系，现为圣加伦大学人文社会科学学院教授。著有《民族的竞争：中世纪与现代之交德意志荣誉共同体的构建》《丑闻专家，专家丑闻：一个当代问题的历史研究》等。 译者｜X. Li 美国佐治亚大学法学硕士，现从事写作、翻译、设计和插画等工作，译有《迷信与暴力》《价格革命》《无尽的盛宴》等。

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)

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)

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)