SPQR : a history of ancient Rome / by Mary Beard.
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TextPublisher: London : Profile Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 606 p. : ill. ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781846683817
- Senatus populusque Romanus
- History of ancient Rome
- 23 937 B3801s
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-562) and index.
Prologue : the history of Rome -- Cicero's finest hour -- In the beginning -- The kings of Rome -- Rome's great leap forward -- A wider world -- New politics -- From empire to emperors -- The home front -- The transformations of Augustus -- Fourteen emperors -- The haves and have-nots -- Rome outside Rome -- Epilogue : the first Roman millennium.
A prominent classicist explores ancient Rome and how its citizens adapted the notion of imperial rule, invented the concepts of citizenship and nation, and made laws about those traditionally overlooked in history, including women, slaves, and criminals.