SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome - Softcover

Beard, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631492225 ISBN 13: 9781631492228

Publisher: Liveright, 2017

Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)
Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)
A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection

A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic).

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Review:

By the time Beard has finished, she has explored not only archaic, republican, and imperial Rome, but the eastern and western provinces over which it eventually won control...She moves with ease and mastery though archaeology, numismatics, and philology, as well as a mass of written documents on stone and papyrus.--G. W. Bowersock

A masterful new chronicle.... Beard is a sure-footed guide through arcane material that, in other hands, would grow tedious. Sifting myth from fact in dealing with the early history of the city, she enlivens--and deepens--scholarly debates by demonstrating how the Romans themselves shaped their legendary beginnings to short-term political ends.... Exemplary popular history, engaging but never dumbed down, providing both the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life.

Book Description:

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1631492225
• ISBN 13: 9781631492228
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608