Plebs Romana
People, Power and Politics in Ancient Rome
$28.75
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
3 February 2026
Summary
Jones has an eagle’s high eye for the history of Rome’ - The Times ‘Jones makes the classical world feel both beguiling and fresh’ - Sunday Times
You may think about the Roman Empire every day, but I bet you rarely think about the plebs. The plebs were the commoners, the general populace and lower social classes, and as such their feelings, thoughts and voices are seldom captured in the sources. Most books about Ancient Rome treat the plebs as irrelevant ‘lowlifes’, which is indeed ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805465102 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805465104 |
| Author: | Peter Jones |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Jones’ books are neat introductions to aspects of Greek or Roman history, lightly and colourfully told, but underpinned by a lifetime of scholarly rigour. Plebs Romana… is erudite, precise and packed with information, while being exactly the right size to keep in the downstairs loo. * Dan Jones, Sunday TImes *
Delightfully informative… learned, but deftly executed… It is an absorbing account, full of wonderful little stories of events or of individuals that made their mark in the tussles which led the plebs to gain real power and influence in Roman politics. * Classics for All *
Peter Jones
Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University, before retiring in 1997. He has written a regular column, ‘Ancient & Modern’, in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Vote for Caesar and Reading Virgil’s Aeneid I and II.
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