The titular initialism was a catchphrase for. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial. If the Romans believed their city had started with Romulus and Remus, with the rape of the Sabine women – in a welter, in other words, of fratricide and sexual violence – what can we learn about the tellers’ concerns, their preoccupations, their beliefs? According to Greg Woolf, “One of the things Mary has taught is to look at the window, not through it, because there isn’t really anything behind it. To clear up the obvious question: SPQR stands for Senatus Populus Que Romanus or the senate and people of Rome. : A History of Ancient Rome book by Mary Beard. Instead Beard asked not how much truth could be excavated from the Romans’ stories about their deep past, but what it might mean that they told them. One way of handling this material might have been simply to have started later, when the historian’s footing among the sources becomes more secure. The whole story slides frustratingly away into legend, with the later Romans just as confused as we are about how an unremarkable town on a malarial swamp came to rule a vast empire.

There are few, if any, contemporary sources. The early history of Rome, the era of its fabled seven kings, is notoriously difficult to untangle.

Decius is an investigator who works his way into the Roman bureaucracy. Door de encyclopedische opzet, door plattegronden, interne verwijzingen en een register is het boek gemakkelijk te gebruiken voor iedereen die even snel iets wil naslaan. Meer dan vierhonderd bekende en minder bekende locaties worden erin behandeld. The books are described as 'fast-paced', 'accurate', 'evocative'. In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome with passion and without technical jargon and demonstrates how. SPQR is een onontbeerlijke gids voor iedereen die Rome bezoekt. Decius Cecilius Metellus is described as 'a would-be playboy son of an illustrious family'. Foreign Policy & International Relations SPQR Series by John Maddox Roberts SPQR Series 13 primary works 25 total works Mystery series set in Ancient Rome.

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