SPQR : a history of ancient Rome / Mary Beard.
Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syr...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 606 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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History of ancient Rome |
| Format: | Book |