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SPQR appeared on the New York Times hardcover, non-fiction bestseller list in December 2015. [ 5 ] It was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction).
The SPQR series is a series of historical mystery stories by John Maddox Roberts, published between 1990 and 2010, and set in the final years of the Roman Republic.SPQR (the original title of the first book, until the sequels came out) is a Latin initialism for Senatus Populusque Romanus ("The Roman Senate and People"), the official name of the Republic.
SPQR or S.P.Q.R., an initialism for Senatus Populusque Romanus (Classical Latin: [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠ pɔpʊˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʷɛ roːˈmäːnʊs̠]; transl. "The Senate and People of Rome" ), is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of the Roman Republic .
Mary Beard, an only child, was born on 1 January 1955 [7] in Much Wenlock, Shropshire.Her mother, Joyce Emily Beard, was a headmistress and an enthusiastic reader. [5] [8] Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, [8] worked as an architect in Shrewsbury.
SPQR is a board wargame designed by Richard Berg and Mark Herman, and released in 1992 by GMT Games, as part of the Great Battles of History (GBoH) series of games on ancient warfare. SPQR deals with battles fought by the Roman Republic , and is designed to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of the Roman manipular legion .
[8] On Bookmarks Magazine Nov/Dec 2018 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "The Silence of the Girls joins the ranks of recent novels that give voice to women during the classical era, including Mary Beard's SPQR (2015) and Madeline ...
The book tells the story of the end of the Roman Republic and the consequent establishment of the Roman Empire. The book takes its title from the river Rubicon in the northern Italian peninsula. In 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed this river with his army and marched on Rome , breaking a sacred law of the Roman Republic and throwing the nation into ...
The book was nominated for the Edgar Award as best mystery of the year. [5] The book was first in Maddox's SPQR series of mysteries. [2] Roberts also wrote a series of contemporary detective novels about a private eye named Gabe Treloar. The first book, A Typical American Town, is set