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Memento Mori What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death

Jones, Peter
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781786494825
Publisert
2019-10-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Books
Vekt
197 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Jones, Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University, before retiring in 1997. He has written a regular column, 'Ancient & Modern', in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Reading Virgil's Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar, Veni, Vidi, Vici, Eureka! and Quid Pro Quo.

Memento Mori What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death

Jones, Peter
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
Jones, Peter
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
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<b>Fascinating.</b>.. It is learned but an easy read, a rare combination.

- Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph

An <b>often amusing, always illuminating</b>, guide which offers an intriguing vantage point at which to examine Roman life.

All About History

An <b>enjoyable, engaging and educational</b> book that makes ancient attitudes on mortality accessible to us all.

Lucia Marchini, Minerva

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'Like everything else Jones writes, <i>Eureka!</i> is packed with intriguing nuggets for novices and experts alike... He flits between the beautiful and the banal, never missing a good story' Natalie Haynes, <i>The Times</i>

Natalie Haynes, The Times, on Eureka!

<b>Jones is a storyteller at heart</b>, unashamed to entertain while educating by stealth, as all the best teachers do.

Spectator on Eureka

In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago.Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only eight per cent of the population made it over sixty. One bizarre result was that half the population consisted of teenagers. From the elites' philosophical take on the brevity of life to the epitaphs left by butchers, bakers and buffoons, Memento Mori ('Remember you die') shows how the Romans faced up to this world and attempted to take the sting out of death.
Les mer
A revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality and the problems of old age, from the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici.
1: Lifespan 2: Young versus old: a brief digression 3: The death of children 4: The trials of old age 5: Facing up to death 6: Exemplary and ignominious deaths 7: Cicero's De Senectute: 'On Old Age' . 8: Death and burial 9: Epitaphs and the afterlife 10: Epilogue: Memento Mori
Les mer
Fascinating... It is learned but an easy read, a rare combination.

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<b>Fascinating.</b>.. It is learned but an easy read, a rare combination.

- Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph

An <b>often amusing, always illuminating</b>, guide which offers an intriguing vantage point at which to examine Roman life.

All About History

An <b>enjoyable, engaging and educational</b> book that makes ancient attitudes on mortality accessible to us all.

Lucia Marchini, Minerva

Se alle

'Like everything else Jones writes, <i>Eureka!</i> is packed with intriguing nuggets for novices and experts alike... He flits between the beautiful and the banal, never missing a good story' Natalie Haynes, <i>The Times</i>

Natalie Haynes, The Times, on Eureka!

<b>Jones is a storyteller at heart</b>, unashamed to entertain while educating by stealth, as all the best teachers do.

Spectator on Eureka

In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago.Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only eight per cent of the population made it over sixty. One bizarre result was that half the population consisted of teenagers. From the elites' philosophical take on the brevity of life to the epitaphs left by butchers, bakers and buffoons, Memento Mori ('Remember you die') shows how the Romans faced up to this world and attempted to take the sting out of death.
Les mer
A revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality and the problems of old age, from the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici.
1: Lifespan 2: Young versus old: a brief digression 3: The death of children 4: The trials of old age 5: Facing up to death 6: Exemplary and ignominious deaths 7: Cicero's De Senectute: 'On Old Age' . 8: Death and burial 9: Epitaphs and the afterlife 10: Epilogue: Memento Mori
Les mer
Fascinating... It is learned but an easy read, a rare combination.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781786494825
Publisert
2019-10-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Books
Vekt
197 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Jones, Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University, before retiring in 1997. He has written a regular column, 'Ancient & Modern', in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Reading Virgil's Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar, Veni, Vidi, Vici, Eureka! and Quid Pro Quo.

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