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lactomar 's review for:
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
A very interesting read and a nice summary of roman history. I hadn't had prior exposure to much formal roman history and I think she made a very nice throughline of three main stages of rome (pre-republic (almost pre-history), republic (including all the major conflicts I had heard of) and then the transition to the imperial phase. She does a great job of comparing the differences in these periods, both how we describe them but also how the Romans saw themselves which I think is the most interesting part. Just a fascinating period of human history.