Aldo Schiavone, trans. from the Italian by Jeremy Carden. Harvard Univ., $19.95 trade paper (190p) ISBN 978-0-674-05778-4
Rather than rely on Kubrick’s classic film, Schiavone, founder and former director of the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, depends on the accounts of ancient scribes, historical time lines, and the author’s own observations to reconstruct the...
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Aldo Schiavone, trans. from the Italian by Jeremy Carden. Liveright, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-63149-235-8
Pontius Pilate is well known as the Roman prefect who presided over the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, but much of what we know of him is more myth than fact, so Schiavone (Spartacus: Revealing Antiquity), a professor of Roman law at the...
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Aldo Schiavone, Author, Margery J. Schneider, Translator Harvard University Press $69 (288p) ISBN 978-0-674-00062-9
Schiavone, a professor of Roman law at the University of Florence, addresses one of the most debated questions of European history: What brought about the collapse of ancient Graeco-Roman society? Or, as the author puts it, ""What separated imperial
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Aldo Schiavone, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Europa, $16 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-60945-668-9
Historian Schiavone (Pontius Pilate) mixes philosophy, politics, and anthropology in this stimulating inquiry into the “paradigm of progress.” He details how the idea that humankind is on an “irresistible forward march” took hold during the 19th...
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