Roma antigua

After a life dedicated to research and teaching, Gonzalo Bravo offers a detailed, objective and, above all, rigorous, journey through the "realistic" history of the Roman people, and he does so by combining the analysis of the written sources of Antiquity with the study of archaeological, epigraphic or numismatic evidence, among other unwritten testimonies, and contrasting all this with the most relevant academic bibliography. The result is a precise account that corrects the excessive influence that myths have had on historiography for centuries, as well as the conjectures, poorly documented hypotheses or biased interpretations that have been assumed by academic manuals. An analysis that attends to a fairer and more global interpretation of the facts, incorporating the history of the forgotten, the marginalized, the anonymous, the settlers, the women, the children and even the slaves, thus conforming the complex social pyramid of each time and not only that of the elites. And a chronicle, finally, adapted to the measurement of human and non-mythical time, which makes the traditional divisions of historical stages pass through the magnifying glass of archeology and critical thinking, thus better calibrating the key processes of social transformation. and politics that led the Roman people to forge one of the most extensive and lasting empires in human history.