出版社: Knopf
副标题: Seneca at the Court of Nero
出版年: 2014-5-11
页数: 320
定价: USD 27.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307596871
内容简介 · · · · · ·
From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne (“Gripping . . . the narrative verve of a born writer and the erudition of a scholar” —Daniel Mendelsohn) and editor of The Landmark Arrian:The Campaign of Alexander (“Thrilling” —The New York Times Book Review), a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the ...
From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne (“Gripping . . . the narrative verve of a born writer and the erudition of a scholar” —Daniel Mendelsohn) and editor of The Landmark Arrian:The Campaign of Alexander (“Thrilling” —The New York Times Book Review), a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale.
At the center, the tumultuous life of Seneca, ancient Rome’s preeminent writer and philosopher, beginning with banishment in his fifties and subsequent appointment as tutor to twelve-year-old Nero, future emperor of Rome. Controlling them both, Nero’s mother, Julia Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress, great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of Emperor Claudius.
James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman.
Romm writes that Seneca watched over Nero as teacher, moral guide, and surrogate father, and, at seventeen, when Nero abruptly ascended to become emperor of Rome, Seneca, a man never avid for political power became, with Nero, the ruler of the Roman Empire. We see how Seneca was able to control his young student, how, under Seneca’s influence, Nero ruled with intelligence and moderation, banned capital punishment, reduced taxes, gave slaves the right to file complaints against their owners, pardoned prisoners arrested for sedition. But with time, as Nero grew vain and disillusioned, Seneca was unable to hold sway over the emperor, and between Nero’s mother, Agrippina—thought to have poisoned her second husband, and her third, who was her uncle (Claudius), and rumored to have entered into an incestuous relationship with her son—and Nero’s father, described by Suetonius as a murderer and cheat charged with treason, adultery, and incest, how long could the young Nero have been contained?
Dying Every Day is a portrait of Seneca’s moral struggle in the midst of madness and excess. In his treatises, Seneca preached a rigorous ethical creed, exalting heroes who defied danger to do what was right or embrace a noble death. As Nero’s adviser, Seneca was presented with a more complex set of choices, as the only man capable of summoning the better aspect of Nero’s nature, yet, remaining at Nero’s side and colluding in the evil regime he created.
Dying Every Day is the first book to tell the compelling and nightmarish story of the philosopher-poet who was almost a king, tied to a tyrant—as Seneca, the paragon of reason, watched his student spiral into madness and whose descent saw five family murders, the Fire of Rome, and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the Senate’s golden age.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
作者简介
詹姆斯·罗姆(James Romm),原名小詹姆斯·H.奥特维(James H. Ottaway Jr.),巴德学院(Bard College)古典文学教授,也是古根海姆基金会、国家人文基金会、多萝西与刘易斯·B.卡尔曼学者与作家中心协会的成员。他出版了众多关于古代世界的著作,包括《王座上的幽灵》《古代思想中的地球边缘》《希罗多德》等专著,以及《丰碑阿里安:亚历山大诸战役》。
译者简介
葛晓虎,上海师范大学世界古代中世纪史硕士,从事历史教学工作,已翻译出版了《坎尼的幽灵:汉尼拔与罗马共和国最黑暗的时刻》。酷爱读书,醉心于古典世界与战争史。
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0 有用 辛维木 2021-12-12 23:45:21
好题,历史总是惊人地相似……
0 有用 Decem 2023-11-03 00:16:57 美国
我果然还是适合看文学,而不是历史(什么)我全书最喜欢的部分就是其中塞涅卡作品的引用话语(什么)看了我只觉得宫斗真刺激(bushi)塞涅加还是人类的通病:说到的做不到(什么)但是他的vision确实是那么的美啊,即使给我都能给到激励
1 有用 污首阁下 2019-10-11 12:15:27
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0 有用 Decem 2023-11-03 00:16:57 美国
我果然还是适合看文学,而不是历史(什么)我全书最喜欢的部分就是其中塞涅卡作品的引用话语(什么)看了我只觉得宫斗真刺激(bushi)塞涅加还是人类的通病:说到的做不到(什么)但是他的vision确实是那么的美啊,即使给我都能给到激励
0 有用 辛维木 2021-12-12 23:45:21
好题,历史总是惊人地相似……
1 有用 污首阁下 2019-10-11 12:15:27
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