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jordi's review against another edition
4.0
La imagen que tenia de este libro antes de empezar a leerlo es que aprendería sombre Augustus o Tiberius u otro emprerador en relativa profundidad.
Pero la idea del libro es extraer todo lo que se sabe de estos emperadores individuales e intentar generalizar o deducir como era el concepto de emperador.
Quiza esto es imposible, como es el concepto de rey, por ejemplo, quizá el intento es inútil pero creo que este libro al intentarlo consigue que el lector piense en cosas que quizá jamas hubiera pensado.
Muy interesante!
smurphy5337's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.0
An interesting nonfiction historical read, but I found myself skipping around to the areas that I found interesting. Mary Beard tends to list the 800 things she’ll be speaking about and then only gets around to speaking about 50 of them. It just felt like a lot of “and then I’ll be discussing this, and this, and this… and then I’ll be discussing this and…” for large sections of the book.
cecesloth's review against another edition
Mary Beard spends a lot of time explaining what she will talk about and never enough time actually explaining it. Yes, ancient sources are unreliable. We get it.
This is now two Beard books I have dnf'ed for this reason, I'd rather just read Suetonius or Dio directly
This is now two Beard books I have dnf'ed for this reason, I'd rather just read Suetonius or Dio directly
umbreonreads's review against another edition
3.0
I found this interesting but overall a bit less compelling than SPQR