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by Tacitus · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · 64 pages
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Sumérgete en la Roma antigua con 'Nerón y el incendio de Roma', una obra clásica de Tácito que relata los eventos tumultuosos durante el reinado de Nerón. Este libro ofrece una visión detallada de la política, los personajes y el devastador incendio que consumió gran parte de Roma en el año 64 d.C. Traducido por Michael Grant, esta edición de Penguin Classics presenta una narrativa vívida y perspicaz de uno de los períodos más controvertidos de la historia romana. Explora las intrigas palaciegas, los asesinatos y la extravagancia de Nerón, así como las consecuencias del incendio que sacudió a la ciudad. Con un análisis profundo y una prosa cautivadora, Tácito ofrece una perspectiva única sobre los eventos que moldearon el Imperio Romano. Ideal para estudiantes de historia, amantes de la literatura clásica y aquellos que buscan comprender mejor la complejidad de la antigua Roma.

Michael Grant was an English classicist, Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to write full-time. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a populariser, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works.