SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary BeardMary Beard’s book on Rome’s first millennium took me a while to work through. Highly readable but dense with ideas and perspectives to think about. I found the first and last sections – on the early history of the town on the Tiber and the lives of “ordinary” people in Rome and beyond – the most interesting; the political history of the Republic and Emperors less so.

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