![]() ![]() Instead, it starts achronologically with Cicero’s speeches against Catiline ( Quo usquo tandem abutere, Catilina, patentia nostra?) and the effect they had on shaping our historical preconceptions of ancient Rome. SPQR wasn’t entirely what I expected – when I first reached for it, I thought it would be strictly a history of the Roman Republic, ending with perhaps the assassination of Julius Caesar. It took me three non-fiction histories of ancient Rome to come to that conclusion, so there you go… ![]() Just to give you a hint of how persuasive an author Mary Beard is: while reading SPQR I finally added Plutarch and Svetonius to my to-read list. It took me two years to finally read my chunky hardback copy (signed) of Mary Beard’s SPQR, but it was definitely worth it. ![]()
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