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PLEBS ROMANA de Peter Jones

• PLEBS ROMANA
• Peter Jones
• Idioma: Inglés
• Formatos: pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
• ISBN: 9781805465119
• Editorial: Atlantic Books
• Año de edición: 2025

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Overview

Jones has an eagles high eye for the history of RomeThe TimesttJones makes the classical world feel both beguiling and freshSunday TimesYou may think about the Roman Empire every day, but I bet you rarely think about the plebs. The plebs were the commoners, the general populace and lower social classes, and as such their feelings, thoughts and voices are seldom captured in the sources. Most books about Ancient Rome treat the plebs as irrelevant lowlifes, which is indeed how they were viewed by the patricians at the centre of the existing popular histories.Plebs Romana is the first history of Ancient Rome to centre the class of people who made up the empires majority. A 700-year story that begins with the founding of the Roman Republic, celebrated historian Peter Jones traces the rise of the plebs, from being a powerless group to a political match for the patrician elite. Along the way we learn how they conducted the worlds first general strike, became the driving force of Romes rise to power, and that it was the increasing class conflict between the rich and the poor, rather than the rise of Christianity, that destroyed the worlds most powerful and consequential empire.

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