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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In one of the many glowing critiques of Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome that have been published since your humble reviewer received his copy in the post, The Economist describes the book ...

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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 ...

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