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She lives in England. "Though she here claims that 50 years of training and study have led up to SPQR, Beard wears her learning lightly. "Beard does precisely what few popularizers dare to try and plenty of dons can't pull off: She conveys the thrill of puzzling over texts and events that are bound to be ambiguous, and she complicates received wisdom in the process.

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In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome with passion and without technical jargon and demonstrates how a slightly shabby Iron Age village rose to become the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life (Ecomist) in a way that makes your hair stand on end (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this highly informative, highly readable (Dallas Morning News) work examines t just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.

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Publisher
Ww Norton & Co, Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1631492225
ISBN-13
9781631492228
eBay Product ID (ePID)
225525789

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Author
Mary Beard
Format
Paperback
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.
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
07/10/2016
Country of Publication
United States

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by desertares21 Mar, 2022
I highly recommend this book for any student of Rome
This is probably the best book on ancient Rome I have ever read. I have a dozens of books but author Mary Beard has an uncanny knack of discovering the true stories behind the myths. I highly recommend this book for any student of Rome.
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by jbfatx18 Sep, 2018
good book on the history of Rome.
good flow. easy to read, not over technical.
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by mcken_3315 Apr, 2021
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Great read . Really interesting overview of Roman history
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