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Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times, those citizens who would be in the top seats of the Colosseum. She takes a boat to Rome's port Ostia , where imported goods come from all over the Mediterranean, and she takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio .
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the United Kingdom by Profile Books and elsewhere by Liveright & Company.
Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) [1] is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge . [ 2 ]
Beard's analysis cuts through the enormous amount of writing about Roman triumphs to try to ascertain what their reality was as a fixture in Roman life, attempting to demystify them from the large number of what she refers to as 'rituals in ink' that have existed (whereby contemporary writers such as Polybius, Livy or Josephus sought to glorify ...
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Mary Beard points to the edict as a fundamental turning point, after which Rome was "effectively a new state masquerading under an old name". [97] Macrinus conspired to have Caracalla assassinated by one of his soldiers during a pilgrimage to the Temple of the Moon in Carrhae, in 217 AD. Macrinus assumed power, but soon removed himself from ...
Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard were an American married couple, historical scholars, and long-time colleagues in the writing of works on American history, including The Rise of American Civilization and their seven-volume History of the United States. Each also wrote extensively as an individual.
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