SPQR
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SPQR
| Full title | SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome |
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| Author | Mary Beard |
| Published | 2015 |
| Pages | 644 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Mary Beard’s single-volume history of Rome across its first thousand years, more interested in how Romans argued about themselves than in the battle order. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Amazon Books at Washington Square, Tigard — November 2017 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at SFO — January 2018 (Books photo album)
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Replies to @typesfast — shown in a screenshot of Rome books inside his history-books thread on X, June 2025.
Connections
- Rome — the subject.
- Classics — the field.
- Historical Futurism — reading a long arc for what it says about the present.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.