书名：A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives / 从一百种人生看古罗马历史
定价：120.0
ISBN：9780500297056
作者：Philip Matyszak
版次：1
出版时间：2023-02

内容提要：

书 名：A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives / 从一百种人生看古罗马历史

作 者：Philip Matyszak

出 版：Thames & Hudson ，2023

装 帧：平装，304页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：12.9*19.8 cm

 

 

罗马帝国在其历史长河中见证了人类经验的巨大多样性。在其鼎盛时期，它的统治范围横跨欧洲、非洲和中东，从不列颠到黑海无不囊括。在这本汇聚了100位人物生平的著作中，菲利普·马齐扎克和乔安妮·贝里不仅为那些名字和事迹被载入古典文献的著名统治者和将军发声，也为构成罗马社会基石的普通公民——百夫长、学者、基督教殉道者和公务员等——赋予了声音。

 

这些人物的故事从平凡无奇到悲惨壮烈，均是从古代艺术、文物和神话中拼凑而来。马齐扎克和贝里揭示了罗马女性有时令人惊讶的壮举，比如亚马孙尼亚，一位挥剑格斗的女角斗士，以及梅蒂拉，一位崇拜库柏勒女神的女祭司。罗马社会的各个阶层和信仰都有所代表，从据说收养了婴儿罗慕路斯和瑞摩斯的牧羊人福斯图卢斯，到其诗句至今仍回响在世间的诗人维吉尔。

 

这些人物的生平各自构成了一幅更大图景的一部分，共同拼凑出一幅丰富的马赛克，让我们得以一窥身为罗马人的意义。

 

The Roman empire witnessed a huge diversity of human experience over its history. At its pinnacle, it exerted its rule across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, from Britannia to the Black Sea. In this collection of 100 lives, Philip Matyszak and Joanne Berry give voice not only to famed rulers and generals whose names and deeds have been enshrined in classical texts but also to the ordinary citizens – centurions, scholars, Christian martyrs and civil servants – who made up the fabric of Roman society.

 

The biographies of these individuals, whose stories range from the happy and uneventful to the tragic and dramatic, are pieced together from ancient art, artefacts and myths. Matyszak and Berry illuminate the sometimes surprising exploits of Rome’s women, such as Amazonia, a sword-swinging gladiator, and Metila, a priestess of the cult of Cymbele. Romans of every class and creed are represented, from Faustulus, a shepherd said to have adopted the infant Romulus and Remus, to the poet Virgil, whose words still echo down the ages.

 

Each of these lives forms part of a larger picture, together making up a rich mosaic that gives us a glimpse of what it meant to be a Roman.