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Bezig met laden... Rome: Day Onedoor Andrea Carandini
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Some very interesting details about the earliest days of Rome, but a rather disorganized book on the whole. The author has an agenda: demonstrating that the "traditional" account of the foundation of Rome is more reliable than usually accepted by scholars in the field. He makes a good argument but it all depends on how reliable his interpretation of the archaeological data is -- and he doesn't give much of the raw data, so it's hard to guess. ( ) The author has been the director of the escavations of the northern side of the Palatine Hill for thirty years, and in this book he condensed for "normal" people the results of his findings and his reconstruction of the "First day" of Rome. In a nutshell, he affirms that the myth of the founding of Rome has many aspects that have been confirmed by archaeological findings. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas, including the argument that there really was a Romulus--a first king of Rome--who founded the city in the mid-eighth century BC, making it the world's first city-state, as well as its most influential. Rome: Day One makes a powerful and provocative case that Rome was established in a one-day ceremony, and that Rome's first day was also Western civilization's. Historians tell us that there is no more reason to believe that Rome was actually established by Romulus than there is to believe that he was suckled by a she-wolf. But Carandini, drawing on his own excavations as well as historical and literary sources, argues that the core of Rome's founding myth is not purely mythical. In this illustrated account, he makes the case that a king whose name might have been Romulus founded Rome one April 21st in the mid-eighth century BC, most likely in a ceremony in which a white bull and cow pulled a plow to trace the position of a wall marking the blessed soil of the new city. This ceremony establishing the Palatine Wall, which Carandini discovered, inaugurated the political life of a city that, through its later empire, would influence much of the world. Uncovering the birth of a city that gave birth to a world, Rome: Day One reveals as never before a truly epochal event. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)937.6301History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Latium, Rome RomeLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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