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Bezig met laden... Nero's Heirs (1999)door Allan Massie
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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. A fairly graphic and in places rather off-putting rendition of the Year of Four Emperors, 69 AD, when Rome tore itself apart following the suicide of Nero. As it does not focus on one emperor, this lacks some of the flow of the others in the series and is decidedly lacking in sympathetic characters. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
At the beginning of the year 66, Emperor Nero ruled the Roman Empire. By the end of it, Nero had committed suicide and three of his successors were dead, and out of the carnage of civil war at home and a nationalistic uprising in Judaea a new emperor, Vespasian, had emerged. Here Scaurus, once the lover of both Vespasian's son and daughter, looks back on the whole extraordinary year and recreates a world of treachery, malice, passion and - occasionally - quite heroism. Drawing on his formidable knowledge of Roman history, Allan Massie brings the distant past vividly to life and creates telling parallels with the present. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Massie conveys well the sense that the book is describing somebody's memories of events rather than the events themselves. There is a certain amount of enjoyment in the fact that the narrator doesn't seem to like Tacitus very much. Scaurus views Tacitus as rather pompous, with a better grasp of what makes for good literary description than of real life, but also unwittingly supplies Tacitus with some of his most memorable quotes.
On the other hand he supplies rather later famous people, such as Napoleon, with some of their best lines as well, which rather spoils the illusion, otherwise very well maintained, that this really is one of Tacitus's sources. ( )