SPQR A History of Ancient Rome Claudia Rankine and explores

and explores

diagrams and photos

brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes

quintessential landscape painters of the Hudson River School

" writes Jamaica Kincaid in this disturbing

SPQR A History of Ancient Rome Claudia Rankine and exploresA sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating