SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the...
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Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today.SPQR is a new
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ASIN: B014T9HKN2
Publisher: Profile Books
Pages no: 607
Edition language: English
TITLE: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome AUTHOR: Mary Beard DATE PUBLISEHD: 2016 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9781631492228 _____________________________ Mary Beard has writen an accessible history of the rise of Rome, it's people and it's senate. The book deals with events that are date...
S.P.Q.R. is Mary Beard's look at, not how Rome fell, which many others have taken a stab at, but at how it rose. She covers Rome's "first millenium," ending in 212 AD, when the Emperor Caracalla extended Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire. The title takes its name from the La...
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