Politics and Society in Imperial Rome offers fresh new interpretations of the politics, society, and culture Rome's imperial era. Argues that the early principate was fundamentally incompatible with the persisting structures of the Roman Republic Demonstrates how these contradictory systems affected the development of Roman society Includes case studies on the imperial court a...(展开全部)

This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart ...(展开全部)

理查德·J.A.塔尔伯特，作者简介，当代历史学家、古希腊罗马文学研究专家、美国北卡罗莱纳大学历史学和古希腊罗马文学教授，领衔创建北卡罗莱纳大学古代世界绘图中心，著述颇丰，包括《罗马帝国的元老院》、《希腊罗马世界巴林顿地图集》(主编)等。 梁鸣雁， 译者简介，中山大学外国语学院英语语言文学硕士；深圳大学外国语学院教师。 陈燕怡，深圳大学外国语学院英语语言文学硕士；香港教育大学文学及文化学系博士生。

理查德·J.A.塔尔伯特，作者简介，当代历史学家、古希腊罗马文学研究专家、美国北卡罗莱纳大学历史学和古希腊罗马文学教授，领衔创建北卡罗莱纳大学古代世界绘图中心，著述颇丰，包括《罗马帝国的元老院》、《希腊罗马世界巴林顿地图集》(主编)等。 梁鸣雁， 译者简介，中山大学外国语学院英语语言文学硕士；深圳大学外国语学院教师。 陈燕怡，深圳大学外国语学院英语语言文学硕士；香港教育大学文学及文化学系博士生。

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them ...(展开全部)