The Roman Triumph

Mary Beard's richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture - and for monarchs, dynasts and generals ever since. But how can we re-create the ceremony as it was celebrated in Rome? How can we piece together its elusive traces in art and literature? Beard addresses these questions, opening a window on the intriguing process of sifting through and making sense of what constitutes 'history'.

ISBN	0674032187	Volumes	1
ISBN13	9780674032187 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	635
Publisher	Harvard University Press	Published in	Cambridge, Mass.
Imprint	The Belknap Press	Series title	Belknap Press S.
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	235
Publication date	05 May 2009	Width (mm)	159
DEWEY	394.50937	Spine width (mm)	33
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	General, Further/Higher education
Pages	448

"Conjectures and conclusions grow from and around the triumphus like kudzu. It takes the mighty vorpal sword of Mary Beard to clear a path through this jabberwocky jungle, snicker-snack. She stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin classicists - scholars like Richard Bentley, Basil Gildersleeve, A. E. Housman. or Ronald Syme - when she points out that almost all the established views on the triumph are dubious or plain wrong... Her prose, for all its learning, is jaunty. Her book is, in short, a triumph." - Garry Wills, New York Review of Books "A book that manages to be simultaneously both brilliantly subtle and splendidly swaggering." - Tom Holland, Sunday Times"

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