Full name: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Author: Mary Beard Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781631492228 1631492225

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" (Economist) 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 not 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. Similar books: Dynasty by Tom Holland The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire by Eric D. Nelson Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy Rome by Greg Woolf The Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather Emperors of Rome by David Potter Rubicon by Tom Holland The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell In the Name of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy History of Rome by Michael Grant 69 A.D. by Gwyn Morgan Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones