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Empress of Rome Matthew Dennison

Empress of Rome von Matthew Dennison

Empress of Rome Matthew Dennison


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Zusammenfassung

Empress of Rome is a brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia.

Empress of Rome Zusammenfassung

Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia Matthew Dennison

Empress of Rome is a brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity (most notably by Tacitus and Robert Graves) as the quintessence of the scheming Roman matriarch, poisoning her relatives one by one to smooth her son's path to the imperial throne. In this elegant and rigorously researched biography, Matthew Dennison rescues the historical Livia from this crudely drawn caricature of the popular imagination. He depicts a complex, courageous and richly gifted woman whose true crime was not was not murder but the exercise of power, and who, in a male-dominated society, had the energy to create for herself both a prominent public profile and a significant sphere of political influence.

Empress of Rome Bewertungen

'Dennison excels at exploring the iconography of Livia... his analysis is exemplary... Balanced, scholarly and yet accessible, this is very good history indeed.' Country Life. 'A fine biography of Rome's first Empress, who is now embedded in the public consciousness as portrayed by Robert Graves and Sian Phillips. The author reassesses that sensational version with commonsense and sympathy. He has produced a scholarly but highly accessible book about the woman who - through chance, dress, behaviour and her own undeniable determination - was able to make the Empire her own.' Lindsey Davis. 'A powerful new life of Livia... refreshingly free of cant' The Herald. '[This] book is something of a triumph... Dennison knows the boundaries between story-telling and history, and sensibly restricts himself to asking the appropriate questions... That is the way to bring Livia to life, and Dennison does it tactfully and well.' The Tablet. 'Dennison's entertainingly brisk biography comes gallantly to the rescue of a lady whose finger-prints have been found, or planted, on the scene of all manner of suspicious deaths.' --The Spectator. 'For the wife of a Caesar, opportunities were often hard to distinguish from pitfalls. No one better illustrates this than the subject of Matthew Dennison's learned, engrossing and pacey new biography... Dennison combines a healthy scepticism towards his sources with an alertness to all that made the career of his heroine authentically remarkable... His achievement, in this consistently entertaining biography, is to remind us that a politician with a clever and supportive wife is a fortunate man indeed.' Tom Holland, Mail on Sunday. 'Matthew Dennison's rich and compelling account challenges the accepted version of Augustus's wife as the viper in the nest... What emerges is a broader and thoroughly compelling account of the beginning of the Julio-Claudian dynasty as it seized and maintained power for itself and the empire. Dennison possesses the magical ability to make us see that the Romans were like us. They laughed at new money, sniggered over sexual misdemeanours, bore petty grudges. They had laws, baths, literature and a disciplined army. And yet they were almost unimaginably different. Dennison recreates ancient Rome and the mindset of its inhabitants as an alien world. It is a city conveyed through the senses, beginning with a marvelous account of the birth of a child into an elite family against a background of smoke, sacrifice, and the melting wax of ancestral masks.' Financial Times.

Über Matthew Dennison

Matthew Dennison is the author of 'The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter' (2007). A journalist, he contributes to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and Country Life. He is married and lives in London and North Wales.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Note. Family tree. Preface 'He chopped down the family tree'. 'Superbissima'. In the beginning... were the Claudii. 'Innocent of guilt'. 'Virility to her reasoning power'. A young man of noble family, of native talent and moderation? 'Night would last for ever'. Fugitive. 'The whimsicality of fate'. 'An eagle flew by'. The price of comfort. 'No magic chant will make you a mother'. By the side of the goddess. Sacrosanct. 'A charming view with minimal expense'. 'A man and his family should live together as partners'. 'They compelled him, as it seemed, to accept autocratic powers'. 'Born of his sacred blood'. 'Her sacred office'. 'If you come to any harm... that is the end of me too'. Three cities of Judaea. 'The man set apart by such an alliance would be enormously elevated'. 'Outstandingly virtuous'. 'Tiberius closer to Caesar'. 'What more can I ask of the immortal gods?'. 'Try not to guess what lies in the future'. 'Perpetual security'. Purer than Parian marble? 'Blood-red comets'. Augusta. 'His mother Livia vexed him'. Above the law? Epilogue: 'You held your course without remorse'. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. List of illustrations.

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GOR004448513
9781849161107
1849161100
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia Matthew Dennison
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Quercus Publishing
20100401
352
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