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From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide
by by Giusto Traina, translated by Malcolm DeBevoise Princton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. xvi, 226. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $35.00 / £30.00. ISBN: 0691257876 A Global Look at the Roman Civil Wars Following Caesar’s Assassination In his Preface, Prof. Taina (Sorbonne and Salento), asks “The End of the Roman Republic: Civil War or World War?” (p. viii) It’s a very good question.
The Roman world war: from the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s suicide
Preview The civil wars that beset the end of the Roman Republic have been a source of endless fascination for both ancient historians and the interested public. The late Republic is well documented, and the extraordinary events and figures of the period make it an attractive subject that has allowed for numerous reinterpretations.
The Best Philosophy Books of 2023
Has 2023 been a good year for philosophy books? Have you noticed any particular trends? I’m writing a book about philosophy at the moment, and I’m delighted it wasn’t published this year, because so many philosophy books have come out—many of them very good. It’s incredibly difficult to choose just five books this year. There’s a lot of competition. One of the trends is a huge number of books about philosophers’ lives.
Jan-Werner Müller
‘Our regimes are democratic,’ Pierre Rosanvallon states in the opening sentence of Good Government, ‘but we are not governed democratically.’ There has in recent decades been a shift, he argues, away from a model of democracy focused on representative assemblies towards one in which executives are dominant. More and more countries are adopting the presidential style of government, even in places like Britain that nominally remain parliamentary democracies.
The best new philosophy books | Five Books recommends
Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense In Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense a Nobel-prize winning physicist, a philosopher and a social sciencist together give a clear, accessible and enlightening guide to the tools of thinking that make science work. This is a brilliant book by eminent thinkers in their fields who are also superb communicators.
Must We Divide History Into Periods? | Columbia University Press
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view.
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