The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture

by Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell

The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city--its rise to power, what made it great and why it still engages and challenges us today. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible introduction to ancient Rome. The book is particularly designed to serve as a background to Reading Latin (CUP 1986).

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Classics, Classical Studies, Ancient History, Read For School, Reference

399 pages, Paperback

First published March 6, 1997

About the author

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Peter Jones (sometimes credited as Peter V. Jones) is a former lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, a writer and journalist. Jones has regularly written on Classics for major newspapers, and was awarded the MBE in 1983. He is a Cambridge graduate.

Jones' popular work has been focused on introducing new generations to Ancient Rome and Greece, from newspaper columns to crossword collections, popular non-fiction, and charitable organisations devoted to helping keep Classics subjects in schools.

Reviews

[Felicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Den här boken fick mig att inse hur verkligt ointresserad jag är av politik, även om det är antik sådan.. Å andra sidan! Kapitlet om The Roman Family var very much interesting. Och kapitlet Roman literature: a BLAST!!

Dock överlag ganska trögt skriven och det hjälpte inte att korrekturläsarna lyckats missa en hel mängd punkter och ord.

[Mark]

Concise and quite readable, this is an excellent introduction to the Roman world.

[Peter Harrison · Rating 5 out of 5]

A textbook written to accompany a course on reading Latin to provide background information on the history and culture of ancient Rome. That makes it a good basic introduction to modes of thought and culture and therefore useful to read alongside a basic history. It includes good pointers to what to read next in each segment.

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a text book, it manages to cover a great deal of ground in a very short (by textbook standards) page count, and as a dip-in-an-out primer on ancient Roman culture, you can't find much better. That said, it's not a fluid, easy-to-read book...and the author is more infatuated with Republican Rome, rather than its imperial successor. That said, his enthusiam bursts through in a number of topics, and its pages are full of fascinating nuggets of information that I discovered for the first time. Very useful indeed.