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SPQR

by Mary Beard

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SPQR

by Mary Beard

5/5

Mary Beard's masterful account of Rome from its mythical founding through Caracalla's granting of citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire in 212 CE. Beard explores not just emperors and senators but the lives of ordinary Romans — slaves, women, freedmen, and provincial subjects.

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