Mary Beard
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, SPQR reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters - Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others - while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests....