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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Hardback, 2015)

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Confronting the Classics. Far from being frozen in marble, Roman history, she shows, is constantly being revised and rewritten as our knowledge expands.

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Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In S.P.Q.R., world-rewned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 ce-nearly a thousand years later-when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire, S.P.Q.R. (the abbreviation of The Senate and People of Rome ) examines t just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation. Opening the book in 63 bce with the famous clash between the populist aristocrat Catiline and Cicero, the rewned politician and orator, Beard animates this terrorist conspiracy, which was aimed at the very heart of the Republic, demonstrating how this singular event would presage the struggle between democracy and autocracy that would come to define much of Rome's subsequent history. Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters-Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others-while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests. Like the best detectives, Beard sifts fact from fiction, myth and propaganda from historical record, refusing either simple admiration or blanket condemnation. Far from being frozen in marble, Roman history, she shows, is constantly being revised and rewritten as our kwledge expands. Indeed, our perceptions of ancient Rome have changed dramatically over the last fifty years, and S.P.Q.R., with its nuanced attention to class inequality, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, promises to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.

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Ww Norton & Co, Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0871404230
ISBN-13
9780871404237
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216346149

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Author
Mary Beard
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Ancient History
Type
Textbook

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Content Note
100 Illustrations; 16 Pages of Color; 5 Maps
Prizes
Winner of Blackwell's Book of the Year 2016. Commended for New York Times Notable Book 2015. Shortlisted for British Book Industry Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016 and Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2015.
Author Biography
A professor of classics at Cambridge University, Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard gave the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
Date of Publication
11/12/2015
Country of Publication
United States

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by member_9005917 Jun, 2020
Scholarly, but understandable to the average adult reader.
The book came to me in as new shape. The scholarship of Ms. Beard is demonstrated on every page. If you want to do a deep dive into learning about the history of Rome, this book is a must read!
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I started this book immediately upon receiving it and have had a hard time putting it down. I love ancient history, especially about Rome, and look forward to sitting down with this book every evening with a cup of coffee.
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This is a great book. I love history and if you love the history of Rome it's a must read.
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