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. 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.
In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome 'with passion and without. A sweeping, 'magisterial' history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains 'relevant to people many centuries later' (Atlantic). There are few, if any, contemporary sources. S.P.Q.R - by Mary Beard 20.99When purchased online In Stock Add to cart About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall):9.4 Inches (H) x 6.5 Inches (W) x 1.9 Inches (D) Weight:2. Paperback Illustrated, September 6, 2016. 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).
The early history of Rome, the era of its fabled seven kings, is notoriously difficult to untangle. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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