Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask

Author(s): Peter Jones; James Nightingale (Editor)

History/Politics

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 bookwhich 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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'Jones spans all 1,200 years of Roman history with seemingly unstoppable enthusiasm... Informative, casually erudite but engagingly unstuffy, he makes the classical world feel both beguiling and fresh' Sunday Times

It takes a man profoundly soaked in a subject to treat it lightly and still be not only witty but wise. Jones has an eagle's high eye for the history of Rome from Aeneas to Augustine and a pigeon's ground-level eye for the graffiti scratcher of Pompeii. The Times A rollicking guide to the Romans and their influence on us Mail on Sunday Jones spans all 1,200 years of Roman history with seemingly unstoppable enthusiasm... Informative, casually erudite but engagingly unstuffy, he makes the classical world feel both beguiling and fresh... The book is full of fascination -- Andrew Holgate Sunday Times Delightful and instructive... There is something to relish on every page -- Allan Massie Spectator Jones's brisk demotic style makes fresh the well-covered run of despots, gladiators, volcanic explosions and filthy satirists. Those who know little about the subject and want a no-frills, entertaining introduction to its rise fall need look no further. Literary Review

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 Vote for Caesar and Reading Virgil's Aeneid I and II.

General Fields

  • : 9781782393900
  • : Atlantic Books, Limited
  • : Atlantic Books
  • : 0.390089
  • : May 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : June 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Jones; James Nightingale (Editor)
  • : Paperback
  • : Main
  • : English
  • : 937
  • : 416
  • : maps (black and white)