Masters na Roma

Masters of Rome jerin litattafan tarihi ne na marubucin Australiya Colleen McCullough, wanda aka kafa a tsohuwar Roma a kwanakin ƙarshe na tsohuwar Jamhuriyar Roma; da farko ya ba da labarin rayuwar da ayyukan Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Pompey the Great, Gaius Julius Kaisar, da farkon aikin Kaisar Augustus. Ya kasance daga Janairu 1, 110 BC zuwa Janairu 16, 27 BC.

 Hotuna 
Sauran manyan mutane na tarihi waɗanda suka bayyana kuma suna taka muhimmiyar rawa a cikin jerin sun haɗa da Mithridates VI na Pontus, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Publius Rutilius Rufus, Quintus Sertorius, Marcus Livius Drusus, Jugurtha na Numidia, Spartacus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Cleodius Milo, Vercingetorix, Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Mark Antony V, Misira, Marcus Apus, Masira, Marcus. Kowane littafi a cikin jerin yana da cikakkun bayanai, zane-zane na manyan haruffa, da bayanin kula na McCullough yana ba da cikakken bayani game da tunaninsa don nuna wasu abubuwan da suka faru a wasu hanyoyi.

 Rubutun tarihi 
Jerin yana da rubutun (wanda Sir Ronald Syme ya gabatar da shi a 1939 a cikin tarihin tarihinsa mai suna The Roman Revolution): yayin da Roma ta zama mafi iko a cikin duniyar Bahar Rum, tsoffin hanyoyin yin abubuwa - ta hanyar tattaunawar abubuwan da suka dace daban-daban, galibi aristocratic da kasuwanci - sun zama masu wahala. Ya zama da wuya a mallaki daular tare da cibiyoyin da aka tsara don gudanar da birni. Wasu shugabannin masu iko (musamman Marius, Sulla, da Kaisar) sun yi ƙoƙari su kirkiro jihar da suke da ikon mulkin mallaka amma kuma sun adana abubuwan waje na tsoffin hanyoyi. Masu ra'ayin mazan jiya sun yi adawa da su (wanda masana tarihi na gargajiya suka kira mafi kyawun, kodayake su da kansu sun fi son taken boni ko "mazauna masu Kyau"). Sakamakon shi ne haihuwar masarautar sarauta, da kuma tsarin iko daban-daban. [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida]

 Hoton Kaisar 
McCullough ya nuna Kaisar a matsayin mai mulkin kama-karya, babban soja, mai tsattsauran ra'ayi, kuma mai gyarawa mai rikitarwa. Ba ta nuna mutuwar Jamhuriyar a matsayin mai kyau ba, amma a maimakon haka ta nuna Kaisar a matsayin babban mutum da ƙetare Rubicon a matsayin abin da ba za a iya gujewa ba, saboda madadin shine gudun hijira, kunya, da keta dignitas dinsa, wanda shine la'akari da ba za'a iya tsammani ba ga Roman Patrician na matsayi na kwastomomi. Dangane da hoton McCullough, tsallakawar Kaisar na Rubicon shine zaɓi na ƙarshe, ƙwallo na ƙarshe na dice, kamar yadda aka kwatanta da mafi kyawun abin da ba a taɓa gani ba daga Kaisar: "An jefa mutuwar. " McCullough ya nuna cewa fassarar madadin Helenanci na kalmominsa shine "Bari dice ya tashi sama, wanda ke nuna ba ƙaddara ba (kamar yadda yake da tsohon) amma la'ana da haɗari.

 Jerin litattafai 
Littattafan jerin sune

 Mutumin Farko a Roma (1990); wanda ya kai shekaru 110-100 BC
 The Grass Crown (1991); ya mamaye shekaru 97-86 BC
 Fortune's Favourites (1993); wanda ya kunshi shekaru 83-69 BC
 Mata na Kaisar (1997); wanda ya mamaye shekaru 67-59 BC
 Kaisar (1998); ya mamaye shekaru 54-48 BC
 Doki na Oktoba (2002); wanda ya mamaye shekaru 48-41 BC
 Antony da Cleopatra (2007); ya kai shekaru 41-27 BC

McCullough da farko ya yanke shawarar kawo karshen jerin tare da The October Horse saboda a ganinta faduwar Jamhuriyar Roma ta faru ne bayan yakin Filibus, tare da mutuwar masu kisan Kaisar. Koyaya, yawancin masana tarihi sun sanya ƙarshen Jamhuriyar shekaru goma bayan haka, bayan wasan karshe tsakanin Augustus da Mark Antony a Yaƙin Actium, a cikin 31 BC. 

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