SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

512 pages first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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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 ...

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informative 96%
reflective 33%
challenging 27%
adventurous 12%
funny 7%
inspiring 5%
dark 3%
lighthearted 3%
relaxing 2%
hopeful 1%
mysterious 1%

Pace

slow 56%
medium 39%
fast 4%

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