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Title: A History of Rome by Marcel Le Glay, Jean-Louis Voisin, Yann Le Bohec, Marcel Le Glay, Antonia Nevill ISBN: 0-631-19457-6 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A concise look at Rome's History
Comment: Marcel Le Glay et al's History of Rome was the first History book on Rome I read. The book was relatively well written, and took an interesting look on Rome's decline. Unfortunately, it focused largely on the Leaders and the royal/imperial families of Rome; the book tended to focus more on their lives then on the Roman Empire's history itself. The section on Augustus was thorough and very interesting. The middle and end of the book were especially good, but the beginning lacked detail. There is an absence of information on this part of Rome's history, and the book tended to breifly talk about important events during those 500 years. The book's examination on the culture of the Roman Empire I find is much too succinct. For its brevity it was excellent; it is admirable that one can write such a tasteful book in such small space. If one wants a helpful guide to the entire history of Rome pick up this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Never again
Comment: I ordered this book for my undergraduate Roman history class before I realized what a piece of crap it was. Get Michael Grant's book instead, or Cary and Scullard's, old as it is. Anything else: I spend valuable time in class and outside it propping up this book because of its many defects. The text consists of a mishmash of poorly-organized subheadings, randomly-inserted series of bullet points and "feature" boxes. There is no sense of the big picture, which is so important for undergraduates, and no way of assessing which material is more important, and which is trivial (and there's a lot of trivial material in here.) One of my colleagues calls it "dog barf": a mix of subjects with no organization or overarching analysis. The writing is filled with phrases in quotation marks that have no sources cited -- exactly what I tell my students NOT to do in their papers. The translated French sentences with their long series of subclauses and odd syntax are difficult reading. The images are if possible even worse. The text refers to objects like the warrior of Capestrano as if everyone were expected to know what it was (why would they be taking Roman history if they did?) which are not illustrated. There is no map which shows where Dacia, Pannonia, or Germania are, all regions which are hugely important in understanding the empire. The periodically inserted plans of Rome (whose references reveal they are essentially xeroxed from other people's books) mark the outlined buildings with numbers, but nowhere is there a KEY. I can't believe the editors passed this thing twice. I'm going to scrutinize offerings from Blackwell much more carefully from now on.
Rating: 5
Summary: The History of Rome in Its Greatest Form
Comment: This book truly got me reading more in depth in Roman History. I've read other Roman History books for instence, The Roman Empire by Colin Welles, and Roman Provincial Administration by J. S. Richardson and this was in a league of its own. Le Glay and compatriots made A History of Rome very enjoyable. Truthfully, I had a hard time putting the book down. This book deserves 5 stars.
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Title: The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Jerome Lectures, 16th Series) by Paul Zanker, Alan Shapiro ISBN: 0472081241 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Roman World: A Sourcebook by David Cherry ISBN: 0631217843 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics) by Ovid, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney ISBN: 019283472X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Aeneid of Virgil by Allen Mandelbaum, Virgil, Allen Mandlebaum ISBN: 0553210416 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Portable Roman Reader by Basil Davenport ISBN: 0140150560 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1977 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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