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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask Hardcover – June 1, 2014

by Peter Jones (Author)

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A beguiling and entertaining introduction to the Romans, vividly bringing to life the people who helped create the world we live in today

The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us, from our calendar and coins to our language and laws, but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of this book which tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and the most enduring empire in history. Fusing a lively and entertaining narrative with rigorous research, Veni, Vidi, Vici breaks down each major period into a series of concise nuggets that provide a fascinating commentary on every aspect of the Roman world, from plebs to personalities, sauces to sexuality, games to gladiators, poets to punishments, mosaics to medicine, and Catullus to Christianity.

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Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Atlantic Books; 1St Edition edition (June 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848879032
ISBN-13: 978-1848879034
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,380,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Not your usual history

By Sydney reader on December 22, 2013

Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase

This book is very easy to read. It covers all the major events in the history of Rome, more or less in chronological order, but adds a lot more as well. The detours along the way include things like gladiators and the games, architecture, food, romance and the life of the slave. Never dull, it serves as a great introduction to Roman history. While Simon Baker's 'Ancient Rome' is the best introduction to the narrative history of Rome, this book fleshes out the social history. Read together, they give a comprehensive picture of the ancient civilisation to bring it alive in a very readable way.

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Fun with Ancient Roman History

By Rob Hardy HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on June 27, 2014

Format: Hardcover

They left the world stage almost two thousand years ago, but the ancient Romans left their marks all over the world and continue to do so. Our calendar, for instance, is theirs, and then there are the legal systems, vocabulary, architecture, and what is more, all those gladiator movies. If you didn’t get enough Roman history when you were in school, or even if you did and you want to be entertained by the vast subject, get _Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask_ (Atlantic Books) by Peter Jones. He is an emeritus professor of the Classics at Cambridge University, but this fact-packed volume is informal and fun, the sort of history that even people who don’t like reading history can find enlightening. Jones’s chapters are basically chronological, from the myths of the foundation of Rome to those Huns who brought it down. Within each chapter are nuggets of a page or less on an important, trivial, but always interesting historical fact, told with enthusiasm and punning good humor.

The Roman system of religion was exceedingly strange. There was the usual pantheon of gods and goddesses ruled over by Jupiter, of course, but then there was a bafflingly huge number of gods to take care of all sorts of minutiae. Just in the agricultural realm, there was a specific named god of ploughing, of weeding, of protection from mildew and rust, and a god of spreading excrement on the fields. Cloacina was the goddess of the sewers. Terminus was the god of boundary stones. Rome was built upon slavery. About 25% of the population at the end of the Republic were slaves, and there was never a shortage of them. There was never any abolition movement. No one questioned that some people ought to be slaves; it was accepted as a natural state.Read more ›

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A great read!

By Augie on October 13, 2015

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A wonderful book which presents the facts (and stories) with a unique blend of humour. A thoroughly enjoyable read - I couldn't put it down till I finished it!