Later Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman
history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices,
each one concerned with the living and the dead: voices of
historians and moralists, voices of great (and not so great)
emperors. Jones has written a book which is all the more for our
time because it looks so clearly at other times and identifies in
them familiar patterns, difficulties, ambitions and desires.
History becomes a crystal ball in which the past chides the future,
the same mistakes predicted and made again, the same injustices
repeated. The Byzantine historians Michael Psellos and Anna Komnene
reveal themselves as the significant chroniclers they always were.
The book concludes with a retelling of Plutarch's 'Consolatio Ad
Uxorem', in which Jones considers what we might hold on to in a
world of suffering.
General
| Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
February 2020 |
| Authors: |
Evan Jones
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
80 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78410-910-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-78410-910-X |
| Barcode: |
9781784109103 |
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