History
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
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Beard interrogates the Roman story rather than retelling it — asking what the evidence really shows about power, citizenship, and ordinary life.
A history of Rome's first millennium that questions its own myths, examining how a small city became an empire and what daily life and citizenship actually meant.
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