検索キーワード： ローマ

青銅器時代の王国の崩壊から大帝国ローマの激動に至るまで、戦争と交易が織りなす古代地中海の壮大な歴史ドラマが、毎日の通勤時間を知的好奇心に満ちた没入の旅へと変貌させます。無味乾燥な年号の暗記ではなく、...

This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay. Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC-AD 65), also known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist from the Silver Age of Latin literature. This edition of Seneca's Epistles includes all 124 of the letters in a single volume, with explanatory notes, an appendix, and an index of the names occurring in the text. The letters were written by Seneca during his retirement and sent to his friend Lucilius Junior, a procurator of Sicily.

圧倒的な成功がなぜ自らを滅ぼすのか――古代共和政ローマの興亡をたどり、権力の肥大化と社会格差が引き起こす国家崩壊のメカニズムを解き明かす重厚な歴史ノンフィクションです。日々の通勤時間や夜の静かなひと...

古代地中海世界を制覇した一小都市の壮大な栄枯盛衰をたどり、巨大帝国が内部から崩壊していく歴史のメカニズムを鮮やかに解き明かします。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスタイムに耳を傾けるだけで、約一千年にわたる...

A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence—from a foremost author of historic Italy.

血塗られた剣闘士の死闘と計算し尽くされた皇帝の権力ゲームが交差する巨大建築の裏側を歩き、古代ローマの熱狂を追体験する圧倒的な没入型歴史ノンフィクション。知的好奇心を満たす毎日の通勤時間や夜の思索のひ...

古代ローマの壮大な興亡からルネサンスの絢爛たる芸術、そして権力闘争の果ての近代国家誕生まで、地中海の交差点で三千年にわたり繰り返された分断と統合の歴史ドラマを鮮明に描き出します。朝の通勤時間や夜の静...

都市国家の誕生から巨大帝国の崩壊まで、千年におよぶ古代ローマの壮大な歴史と権力闘争を耳で体験し、西洋文明の礎を深く理解する圧倒的な音声ガイド。通勤の電車内や夜の静かなリラックスタイムが、地中海世界を...

かつての超大国はいかにしてゆっくりと崩壊し、新たな中世ヨーロッパの夜明けへと姿を変えたのか、その壮大な歴史の転換点を鮮やかに描き出す思索の旅。静かな朝の通勤電車の中や、一日を終える夜のリラックスタイ...

圧倒的な権力を誇った古代エジプトがいかにして覇権を失い、相次ぐ帝国の征服に屈していったのか、その激動と崩壊の歴史をドラマチックに描き出します。日々の通勤や静かな夜のリラックスタイムに、かつての栄華が...

古代エジプトの命運を懸けた壮絶な権力闘争のなかで、一人の女性統治者が巨大帝国ローマとの知的な政治ゲームに挑む重厚な歴史ドラマ。魅惑的な恋人という作られた神話を剥ぎ取り、国を背負って孤独な決断を重ねた...

Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece. Beginning in the second century A.D. at the apex of the Pax Romana, Gibbon traces the arc of decline and complete destruction through the centuries across Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a thrilling and cautionary tale of splendor and ruin, of faith and hubris, and of civilization and barbarism. Follow along as Christianity overcomes paganism... before itself coming under intense pressure from Islam.

小さな都市国家はいかにして地中海世界を統合する超大国へと変貌し、なぜ崩壊の道を辿ったのか、その劇的な興亡の歴史をわずか二時間で鮮やかに体感できます。日々の通勤時や集中して学びたいスキマ時間に、知的好...

Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight times more densely populated than modern-day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, best-selling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day, we meet a new character - from emperor to slave girl, gladiator to astrologer, medicine woman to water-clock maker - and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives.

The Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD, which records his private notes to himself and his ideas on Stoic philosophy. A major theme of Meditations is the importance of analyzing one's judgment of self and others and the development of a cosmic perspective.

'Bold, dazzling and provocative' – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'This book uncovers what was lost when Christianity won' – The Times In The Darkening Age, historian Catherine Nixey tells the little-known – and deeply shocking – story of how a militant religion deliberately...

In the pantheon of ancient men of letters, none hold a more venerated position than the Roman historian, Tacitus, venerated alike for the accuracy of his chronicles as well as for the superiority of his style. He was a writer of unexcelled genius and consummate skill. But his work fell into oblivion not long after his death, and has come down to us based on the text of a single tattered manuscript from the Middle Ages.

Tout le monde l'a admis en même temps. Internet tout entier a levé les yeux de son téléphone et a avoué que oui , en effet, il pensait constamment à l'Empire romain. On en a fait une blague, comme on le fait souvent avec ce qui nous fait un peu peur. Mais cette blague cachait un secret : on ne peut s'empêcher de penser à Rome parce qu'on ne l'a jamais vraiment quittée. Ce livre prend le phénomène au sérieux sans se prendre lui-même au sérieux. Il défend une idée à la fois étrange et vraie: Rome ne s'est pas effondrée, elle a migré.

This book tells the story of the Rubicon as a symbol that has refused to die—clinging stubbornly to the imagination of humankind from Caesar’s fateful step right up to our own modern dilemmas, those moments when we make choices that turn the world upside down. The river itself becomes more than water and stones: it becomes destiny incarnate, the line that separates what was from what will be, hesitation from decision, trembling fear from reckless courage.