ANCIENT ROME: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN EMPIRE
Book ID/图书代码： 11340010B39151
English Summary/英文概要： This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world’s first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you’ve never seen it before – awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid. From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the ’free’ republic, the birth of the age of the ’Caesars’, the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world religion. At the heart of this account are the dynamic, complex but flawed characters of some of the most powerful rulers in history: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine. Putting flesh on the bones of these distant, legendary figures, Simon Baker looks beyond the dusty, toga-clad caricatures and explores their real motivations and ambitions, intrigues and rivalries. The superb narrative, full of energy and imagination, is a brilliant distillation of the latest scholarship and a wonderfully evocative account of Ancient Rome.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 該書記述了世界上曾經最富盛名的大帝國—古羅馬的興衰存亡史。西門.貝克著重探討了古羅馬發展史上的六大轉捩點，他對古羅馬從建立到衰敗的過程的描述是如此引人入勝，以至於那些慘無人道的暴行，天才統治策略以及無休無止的權利欲望也望塵莫及。從西元前3世紀征服地中海開始，到700年後帝國滅亡，作者把古羅馬歷史中每一個重要關節都清晰地展現在我們面前。
本書的核心內容則放在了古羅馬歷史上最強大的統治者身上，例如凱撒大帝，奥古斯丁，尼祿和康斯坦丁。在作者的筆下，這些傳奇式人物皆是有血有肉的英雄。透過那些滿目灰塵的畫像，作者看到的則是這些統治者們埋藏心中的真實動機，野心和陰謀算計。該書對最新的相關研究進行了提煉和總結，敘述完美流暢，想像力豐富，活力十足，是一部非常生動的歷史記錄。(兼职翻译-XMM)
Awards/获奖情况：BBC的經典好書之一
Ebury最暢銷電子書之一，自2010年9月至今已被下載6000多次
自2006年9月出版以來，在英國就銷售量達到17000冊（精裝本）+45000冊(平裝本)
"Effectively profiles several important figures from Rome’s history . . . recommended for public libraries." ---Library Journal
“該書生動地剖析古羅馬歷史上最重要的幾位歷史人物……（我們）推薦所有的公共圖書館收藏此書。”—《圖書館期刊》
About the Author/作者介绍： Simon Baker read Classics at Oxford University. In 1999 he joined the BBC’s award-winning History Unit where he has worked on Timewatch and a wide range of programmes about the classical world. He was the Development Producer on the BBC One series Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire. This is his second book.
西門.貝克曾在牛津大學研習古希臘和古羅馬的經典文學作品。1999年，西門加入BBC獲獎單位“歷史部門”（History Unit），此後一直參與旗下《時代瞭望》節目的製作與策劃，以及其他一系列歷史類節目。此外，他還擔任過BBC電視系列節目《古羅馬：一個帝國的興衰史》（One series Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire）的製作人。本書是他的第二本作品。
Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Newnham College. She has written widely on the history and culture of the ancient (and modern) world. Her most recent books are The Parthenon and (with Keith Hopkins) The Colosseum. She is Classics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and her major study of the Roman Triumph will be published by Harvard University Press in 2007.
瑪麗.比爾德是劍橋大學古典文學教授兼Newnham學院研究員。瑪麗已出版過多本研究古代（也包括當代）歷史和文學的作品。其近作包括The Parthenon (與Keith Hopkins合著) 和The Colosseum。目前，作者擔任《泰晤士報文學副刊》古典文學專欄的責任編輯。2007年，其對古羅馬興盛時期的主要研究成果由哈佛大學出版社出版發行。
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