Ancient Rome is important, Mary Beard tells us at the start of “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome” (Liveright, $35), her smart and exuberant survey of the first millennium of Roman history. “Rome still ...

Issues of identity and belonging preoccupied the Romans, and insistently resonate with the concerns of the early 21st century Thanks to the sophisticated work of archaeologists, we now know more than ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. SPQR by Mary Beard subtly invites the reader to speculate upon the parallels between the modern world and ancient civilisation. As 2015 ...

So asked the historian Polybius, as Mary Beard reminds us in SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Mercifully for those not so indifferent to wonder, but idle enough to avoid exploring the topic themselves ...

Do you have fond memories of your favorite history professor, who could engagingly convey lots of information, filling in along the way the process of how it came to be known? Maybe he or she also ...

Mary Beard evangelizes for the ancient Romans like no other. A Cambridge classicist, BBC presenter, blogger, and engaging lecturer, Beard is eager to convert a wider audience to a love of antiquity.

How did a tiny village in central Italy rise to become one of the most dominant powers in the world, and one that still, two thousand years later, is influencing our culture, politics and worldview?

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If there can be any such person as a "favorite classicist," Mary Beard fills that bill. Erudite but accessible, appealing on and off the page, Beard reaches both a readership familiar with ancient ...