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Veni, Vidi, Vici... new book by Peter Jones

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This kind of books are dangerous, unless written by a real specialist: they risk to encourage as many commonplaces as they're supposed to dismantle.

Anyway, I don't know this Peter Jones and I never read anything of him.

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Anyway, I don't know this Peter Jones and I never read anything of him.

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His wikipedia link loses it's final ) when parsed in this forum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jones_(classicist) From that, I highlight in bold his mission as I see it... addressing the relevance of Rome to today's everyman rather than his old works that address Rome to the scholars.

 

Peter V. Jones is a Cambridge graduate with a doctorate on Homer. He is a former senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and co-founded with Jeannie Cohen the Friends of Classics charity.[1] He was also once a teacher but is presently employed as a writer, journalist and broadcaster.

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He has recently published a book called "Vote For Caesar" about how ancient civilisations have solved the problems of today. Awarded the MBE in 1983, Jones has written numerous tomes and essays on Homer.

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I have read his journalism for years, but that was before my interest in the Romans. I guess I can restart at http://www.spectator.co.uk/author/peter-jones/ for instance, although that said I hit my monthly quota after reading about Quaddafi as Caligula. That was a great magazine years ago when edited by today's mayor of London, but now perhaps not worth the subscription. I thought their review was poor and almost didn't post it, but thought the book itself might be good anyway.

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