6/26/2023 0 Comments Spqr beard review![]() ![]() Orator, slumlord, judge/jury/and executioner, he was a man of many parts, and not all of them particularly likeable. ![]() ![]() But, as she illustrates throughout the book, he could be both bombastic bore and whining victim. She speaks freely of his obvious talents, and about how he rose from provincial nobody to the pinnacle of the Roman elite, without the advantages of pedigree or military prowess. Her portrayal of Cicero is not entirely flattering. Yet she chose to begin the book roughly three-quarters of the way into that millennium, with a discussion of the suppression of the Catiline rebellion by Cicero in 63 BCE. In her new book, SPQR (Related Page: SPQR in Ancient Rome), Mary Beard writes about the history of the first millennium of ancient Rome – roughly covering the period of time from Rome’s foundation, on the implausibly precise date of 21 April 753 BCE, to the year 212 CE when the Emperor Caracalla made every free inhabitant of the Roman Empire a full Roman citizen. ![]()
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