SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Mary Beard begins not at the founding but in 63 BC, with Cicero and Catiline, because that is where Rome starts arguing about what Rome is — and then works outwards in both directions across a thousand years.

She is more interested in how ordinary Romans lived than in the sequence of emperors: what the graffiti says, who counted as a citizen and why that changed, how slavery actually operated, and why the founding myths are all about violence and rape. She is also refreshingly willing to say when the evidence simply does not support the famous story.

A number one bestseller and the standard modern one-volume history of Rome.

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