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Title: Infamy: The crimes of ancient Rome
Author: TONER JERRY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/06/2020
Imprint: PROFILE BOOKS (UK)
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective’s hunt to discover the extent of Rome’s crimes.
From the sexual peccadillos of Tiberius and Nero to the chances of getting burgled if you left your apartment unguarded (pretty high, especially if the walls were thin enough to knock through) he leaves no stone unturned in his quest to bring the Eternal City to book.
Meet a gallery of villains, high and low. Discover the problems that most exercised its long-suffering citizens. Explore the temptations of excess and find out what desperation can make a pleb do. What do we see when we look at Rome? A hideous vision of ancient corruption – or a reflection of our own troubled age?
ISBN: 9781781253861
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 320