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SPQR : a history of ancient Rome / Mary Beard.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780871404237 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 606 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Rome > History > Kings, 753-510 B.C. Rome > History > Republic, 510-30 B.C. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Cookstown Branch | 937 Bea | 31681002812527 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
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. 5 maps - Baker & Taylor
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. - Book News
Beard presents her revisionist history of ancient Rome, noting that two-thousand years later the imperial city continues to undergird Western culture and politics. She confronts myths and half-truths about Rome and examines how a small village in central Italy morphed into a dominant power on three continents. Citing Romeâs history as constantly evolving, she questions whether it really fell at all. The book begins at 63 BCE with the conflict between Catiline and Cicero and ends in 212 CE, when Caracalla made every free inhabitant of the Roman Empire a full Roman citizen, thereby eroding the difference between conqueror and conquered and completing a process of expanding the rights and privileges of Roman citizenship begun a thousand years earlier. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - WW Norton
A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. - WW Norton
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