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Infografica della Roma Antica

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Mai prima d'ora la lunga e affascinante storia di Roma era stata pensata e raccontata attraverso l'uso dell'infografica. Nutrito dall'erudizione di John Scheid (con la collaborazione di Milan Melocco), visivamente trasposta con grande efficacia da Nicolas Guillerat, il volume offre al lettore la possibilità di immergersi nel mondo romano antico, dalla nascita della Repubblica al sistema politico imperiale, dalle guerre civili allo scontro con Cartagine, dalla religione all'economia dell'Urbe. Tra queste pagine lo Stato di Roma, la res publica del popolo romano, centro politico e autorità superiore di un'entità di immense proporzioni, trova una rappresentazione tridimensionale. Un approccio originale e rigoroso basato sulle migliori fonti internazionali per un libro senza pari, con una costante attenzione alla chiarezza nonostante la difficoltà di reperire dati numerici attendibili per l'epoca antica. Grazie alle molteplici possibilità offerte dalla computer grafica, la storia di Roma si offre al nostro sguardo con una nuova, avvincente modalità di narrazione.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2020

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Profile Image for Justo Martiañez.
576 reviews251 followers
December 30, 2024
5/5

Brutal.

Aquí esta Roma en datos. A nivel político, militar, social, religioso.

No es un libro para leer, si no para consultar e ir digiriendo según las necesidades que se tengan en cada momento.

Para que todo amante de la antigua Roma tenga en su estantería y sufra palpitaciones de emoción cada vez que abre sus páginas.

Tiene algún fallo. A veces no es fácil condensar tanta historia en unas breves frases y en infografías. Falta el detalle y los gráficos no son fáciles de interpretar.

Cabe destacar que el tamaño es grande (mayor que A4 en ancho) y eso ayuda con los gráficos.

Vamos, un tesoro.



Profile Image for Trish.
2,395 reviews3,751 followers
September 3, 2023
I've been interested in ancient ccivilizations since I was about 9 years old. Rome wasn't my absolute favorite but it always held a certain fascination - not least because half my family lives in Italy and I've been to see so many ruins and temples and loved them all.

This book is giving sort of an overview on what made the Roman Empire what it is. From how many people lived in Rome itself vs. the provinces to how the Roman military was structured or how the political system worked. The book thus shows who had what rights / responsibilities and how the entire empire "worked".

Every page is showing graphics illustrating the statistics. This also nicely emphasizes the changes the empire underwent throughout history.






Lots of information and details in this which makes this book a great reference for later reading, too.

I very much enjoyed the structure of this and - by extension - Rome itself. It also made for a perfect companion book for other non-fiction books about Ancient Rome.
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Author 8 books273 followers
October 27, 2021
Un libro único que utiliza la visualización de datos para acercarnos de manera gráfica a las características de la República romana y el posterior imperio: su sistema política, su economía, sus habitantes, su ejército, las principales batallas... Las infografías se presentan de maneras vistosas y originales, no siempre fáciles de entender a la primera, pero parte del juego es recorrerlas y descifrarlas.
Profile Image for KritikKröte.
38 reviews
May 29, 2022
4,5 Sterne
Ich nehme das Update von Donnerstag jetzt einfach mal als Review.

Ich gebe zu es war ein Impulskauf aber definitiv ein guter. Das gibt es bei Goodreads leider momentan erst in der Originalsprache aber ich glaube ich hätte es auch auf französisch gekauft um ehrlich zu sein. Wie schon das Statistikbuch über den 2.Weltkrieg, ist auch das hier mit perfekt dargestellten Grafiken gefüllt, die teilweise so schön kompliziert und teilweise auch so unnötig sind, dass mir richtig warm ums Herz wird. Da ich die letzten Monate sowieso wieder eine Rom-Phase durchlebe, traf es sich recht gut, dass ich dieses Buch gefunden habe. Allerdings habe ich es - obwohl gestern erst angefangen - heute schon durch. Hat sich trotzdem gelohnt. Ich glaube ich habe mich selten so wie ein Kind gefühlt. Kann das Buch weiterempfehlen wer schon den Vorgänger gut fand, wenngleich Antikes Rom 101 Basiswissen vorausgesetzt wird, da viele Dinge auch einfach nicht erklärt werden. Besonders ärgerlich finde ich hierbei, dass die Texte eigentlich oft nur leicht über Allgemeinbildung in dem Bereich hinausgehendes Wissen vermitteln und wirklich ein höheres Niveau haben sollten, da die Zielgruppe des Buches sich wahrscheinlich nur aus Autisten wie mir konstituiert. In den Grafiken waren allerdings auch sehr viele neue Dinge enthalten, die ich nicht kannte oder wusste, wie z. B. eine Liste aller gesetzlichen und kostumbralen (ist das ein Wort? wie heißt das richtig?) Feiertage der römischen Gesellschaft, wo ich eigentlich nur von Saturnalia, Lupercalia und latent von den Apollonischen und Romanischen Spielen wusste, sowie die verschiedenen religiösen Ämter Roms, wo außer Pontifex Maximus, Rex Sacrorum, Pontifenkollegium, Standardauguren und den Flamen so viele neue Begriffe auftauchten, dass ich mich wie in einem Bällebad fühlte.

Das Buch lässt sich bei voller Begeisterung und totaler Missachtung der meisten Beitexte in etwa 3 bis 4 Stunden gut lesen (auch gut in Bulemieform um 2:00 nachts), ist sicherlich danach auch aber regelmäßig einen Blick wert, zumal man mit einigen Grafiken, wie der prozentualen Bebauung der Stadt Rom oder der Geschichte der Legionen gut 1-2 h genießen kann, wenn man wirklich will.

Insgesamt gibt es nur 4,5 Sterne, weil man denke ich noch mehr draus hätte machen können.
1 review1 follower
October 24, 2021
Si te gusta la historia, los datos y la Antigua Roma, tendrás en este libro gran cantidad de horas para comprender mejor aspectos clave sobre su organización política, religiosa, cultural o militar.
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127 reviews28 followers
May 11, 2022
Brutal. Una idea muy original y esclarecedora. Mis 5* sin duda.
Profile Image for Carmen, inis.
102 reviews13 followers
January 21, 2024
Lo bien que está todo representado y tan chulo… 10/10 genial para mis clases
Profile Image for Luca Morandi.
514 reviews12 followers
January 23, 2024
Molto interessante e estremamente ben fatto. Anche se a volte i diagrammi non sono semplicissimi
Profile Image for Andres Felipe Contreras Buitrago.
284 reviews13 followers
December 11, 2021
A nivel visual, este libro se disfrutá mucho, las infografías son una obra de arte, muy fáciles de entender.

El libro no se centra en la historia de Roma, sino en sus ciudades y habitantes; la forma en que se gobernaba; y el como era la guerra y el ejército romano.

Es impresionante ver cómo eran las ciudades de este gran imperio; como eran organizadas las provincias; como era la estructura familiar de un romano; como vivían las mujeres y como era ser un esclavo. Interesante el aspecto de la religión, mostrando claro, la expansión del cristianismo. Finalmente, la economía romana, pese a la escasez de datos, se logra hacer una gran red comercial en el Mediterráneo.

Sobre las formas de gobierno, es muy bien detallada las funciones de los políticos, así también como las dinastías. Un gran apartado esté.

Finalmente, en el ejército, se muestran como era las legiones, cuales eran sus estrategias y formas de combate, como era un campamento militar; que equipamento llevaba un militar romano; como se asediaba una ciudad; como era la cabellerria y fuerza naval romana, por último el mostrar algunas guerras importantes romanas, es algo muy fundamental para ver lo anterior visto en la realidad.

El libro, es algo que siempre se tendrá a la mano para repasar aspectos romanos. Como material educativo, es imprescindible.
Profile Image for Cengiz Aytun.
Author 7 books27 followers
October 26, 2023
Açıkçası bu kadar veri yüklü grafikler beklemiyordum. Bir oturuşta okurum demiştim. Yanılmışım. İnfografiklerdeki verileri okuyup anlamak için epey bir düşünmeniz gerekebiliyor. Grafikler güzel düşünülmüş ve sunulmuş. Ancak yine de sorunlar yok değil. Bu sorunlardan bazıları yapılan çeviri hataları bazıları da sanırım baskı hataları. Grafiklerin bazı yerlerinde yazılar o kadar küçük ki neredeyse büyüteç kullanmak gerekiyor. Belki ikinci bir baskı olursa düzeltilebilirler. Sonuç olarak kitap kuruluşundan çöküşüne kadar geçen sürede Roma’ya farklı kesitlerden bakmanızı sağlıyor. Keşke son kitabımı yazarken elimin altında olsaydı. Kitabımda Roma ile ilgili bölümleri yazarken bana çok faydası olurdu.
Herkese iyi okumalar.
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283 reviews51 followers
November 23, 2021
Si te gusta la historia de La Antigua Roma este es tu libro.
288 reviews
December 1, 2023
This is an ambitious book. It tries to give a history of Rome in pictures instead of words. It is a noble effort but it ultimately fails.

A lot of work went into this book. There is great attention to detail. (I did spot one typo when they said Caesar was in Gaul in the winter of 71 BC.) It is just hard to not use words.

There's a page on the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70. Lots happened but I am not sure what.

On first glance the book looks great. The paper used is excellent, so thick that I kept thinking pages were stuck together. The printing is clear but often confusing with the use of similar colours a lot. There are lots of symbols used but they are not always explained.

The book needs an index.

Overall, I think it fails. There's a related book on the Second World War using infographics. I'll skip that one.
Profile Image for Kristoffer "Illern" Holmén.
47 reviews
January 14, 2022
Very good book with one often present drawback; the colouring is easy follow in the diagrams but sometimes hard to follow in the diagram legends which makes many diagrams unnecessary hard to interpret. Seems like the classic mistake to not take into account that it's harder to differentiate colours of small dots than larger areas in diagrams.

Still a very good and interesting book. Probably a good inspiration for role-playing if one wants to go the culture-gaming way.
14 reviews
October 28, 2023
I managed to struggle to the end because occasionally the book had really interesting parts, but most of the time the figures were so overly complicated as to be completely unreadable.
Profile Image for Susannah.
499 reviews11 followers
February 11, 2024
Very enjoyable history of Ancient Rome told through infographics. It covers many areas of Roman history and society including the army, The Punic Wars, Gallic Wars, Spartacus, the navy, religious life and rituals, wages and spending power. You really need to be into infographics to read this, but it is a different way of learning and I have learnt many new things about Ancient Rome from this book. I found the part on wages and what could be bought on a certain salary very interesting and the evolution of the Roman army.
Profile Image for Kirill Protasenia.
166 reviews1 follower
July 17, 2024
Great schematic representation of Roman civil institutions, political and military structures. With chronology of their development and extinction. As Roman civilisation came through days of kingdom to republic and then to imperium they have to invent lots of still relevant mechanisms to keep growing and absorbing new territories and cultures, defeating more skilful enemies relying on discipline and innovation and overcoming internal turmoils for centuries.
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554 reviews9 followers
December 25, 2021
Fantastic book full of figures the help explain the Roman world. According to the book, both population and economic output peak around 200 CE, around the time of the Severans. Why do most people and historians consider the Antonines to be the peak of Rome and the Severans to be the start of the decline phase when statistically it was the Severans?
Profile Image for Lauli Grazia.
41 reviews1 follower
April 11, 2023
Libro muy muy interesante sobre datos de Roma desde sus comienzos hasta su final. Infografías sobre la cultura, la política, el ejército, la religión, la familia, el Derecho y su evolución a lo largo de los siglos te aseguran horas de lectura e investigación.
Realmente interesante para aquellos que disfrutamos con los datos y la Historia.
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11 reviews1 follower
July 30, 2023
I seldom use the word awesome but that is the best way to describe this book. It is so interesting to get a numerical breakdown and visual information on the various aspects of Roman society. The book must have taken an immense amount of work to compile. The maps, army and civilian clothing drawings are mint. Fantastic effort.
84 reviews
December 29, 2021
Interessant, ook voor mensen met wat voorkennis. Sommige van de info graphics zijn zo complex dat ik me afvraag of een stuk tekst niet meer verhelderend zou zijn geweest, maar mag de pret niet drukken.
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165 reviews2 followers
September 8, 2023
Haven't read something this cool since I had this one really cool medieval castle book with the X ray gimmick as a child.
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112 reviews3 followers
December 18, 2023
4 na szynach ze względu na nieczytelność końcowych grafik i pewne uproszczenia w narracji
Profile Image for Flo Svn.
330 reviews
May 14, 2024
Belles infographies, utiles pour les grands mais difficiles à exploiter pour les enfants.
Profile Image for Giel.
65 reviews
March 21, 2025
Je kan het ook te moeilijk maken. Sommige Inforgraphics zijn niet of alleen met zeeeer veel concentratie te begrijpen. Verder wat irritante (snij-)fout en redactie fouten. Zonde voor zo'n duur boek.
1 review
January 13, 2026
Unclear and confusing infographics made for the sake of design instead of precise data
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January 25, 2022
Great supplement and handy set of well presented information. Neat.
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19 reviews1 follower
April 11, 2023
Alcuni grafici sono difficili da capire ma affronta argomenti talmente complessi che si può perdonare. Fondamentale da tenere in casa come promemoria.
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