Characters and Events of Roman History
Guglielmo Ferrero
Read by Mark Harrington
Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, and this book contains his Lowell Lectures, presented in 1908 at the Lowell Institute in Boston. In his first lecture, Ferrero discusses the "corruption" of customs and morals in Rome and compares this to America and Europe of his day; he then discusses key figures and events from Caesar to Nero, and finally considers the role Rome can play in education. Ferrero uses psychological, sociological, and economic lenses in evaluating the world of Rome. (Summary by Mark Harrington) (6 hr 23 min)
Chapters
| "Corruption" in Ancient Rome, and Its Counterpart in Modern History | 52:53 | Read by Mark Harrington |
| The History and Legend of Antony and Cleopatra | 46:09 | Read by Mark Harrington |
| The Development of Gaul | 46:30 | Read by Mark Harrington |
| Nero | 59:18 | Read by Mark Harrington |
| Julia and Tiberius | 53:00 | Read by Mark Harrington |
| Wine in Roman History | 41:26 | Read by Mark Harrington |
| Social Development of the Roman Empire | 46:52 | Read by Mark Harrington |
| Roman History in Modern Education | 37:07 | Read by Mark Harrington |
Reviews
it's ok
Barn Studios 1
The reader does a great job but the author is all over the place. he states at the beginning that he doesn't want to embellish and I can respect that. He is constantly going off on side tangents that are very distracting from the subject being talked about and he comes off extraordinarily preachy. Ignore The rambling lunacy of the first comment. it's not that good.
Awesome.
The Communistic national Socialist Gay Homophobe
There is a familiarity between the fall of Rome and the fall of the west. I think the author correctly identified the correct cause of the fall. That being the lack of transgendered nonbinary BIPOCs in the Senate, and the surplus of white people in the populous. Now we need to go forth and fortify democracy be replacing all native USAians with nonbinary BIPOC guest workers. Black Rock needs inexpensive guest workers, so that they have the funds to create studies to study the decline of the middle class.