Peter Jones

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 Veni, Vidi, Vici, 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. Through the twists and turns of his 1250-year itinerary, Peter Jones is a friendly and clear-thinking guide. In this book he has produced a beguiling and entertaining introduction to the Romans, one that vividly brings to life the people who helped create the world we live in today.

Vini, vidi, vici: Hechos, personajes y curiosidades de la antigua Roma, de Peter Jones, autor de obras como Flight catering o Cracking Da VInci´s Code, es un libro que, bajo la apariencia de ligero y entretenido, nos acerca a la vida cotidiana en Roma mejor que muchos estudios académicos. Esta obra acerca al lector general a aquello que le puede resultar más atractivo de la Historia de Roma: cómo vivían los verdaderos ciudadanos de Roma.Peter Jones, que enseñó cultura clásica en Cambridge y en la Universidad de Newcastle, ha escrito algo así como una historia amena de Roma, desde su fundación hasta las invasiones bárbaras, en una sucesión de textos breves, a modo de viñetas, que nos hablan de los grandes personajes y de los acontecimientos fundamentales de la historia de la ciudad y del imperio, pero también de circunstancias anecdóticas que se refieren a unos y otros -los gansos del Capitolio, los elefantes de Aníbal, la riqueza de Craso, la construcción del Coliseo…- o de cuestiones que nos aproximan a la vida cotidiana y a las costumbres de los ciudadanos: los sacrifi cios y rituales de las vestales, los caballos y las carreras, los sistemas de voto, los esclavos y sus trabajos, las bibliotecas, la duración de la vida, el teatro popular… Jones se ha propuesto conseguir, a partir de la amenidad, que el lector conozca, con gusto y sin esfuerzo, los fundamentos de una historia que ha "configurado nuestro mundo y penetrado nuestra imaginación".

James L. Garlow and Peter Jones present compelling evidence in response to the questions raised by the best selling novel The Da Vinci Code

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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.

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 Veni, Vidi, Vici, 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. Through the twists and turns of his 1250-year itinerary, Jones is a friendly and clear-thinking guide. In this book he has produced a beguiling and entertaining introduction to the Romans, one that vividly brings to life the people who helped create the world we live in today.