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SPQR
Mary Beard, 2015
Long read, about 608 pages
A thousand years of Rome by a historian who shows you how we know what we know.
Start here on History Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Source: Wikipedia
Talk about it
- Beard keeps showing how we know what we know. Did that make Rome feel closer or further away?
- Which part of Roman life felt most like ours, and which felt most foreign?
- What does a history built from scraps of evidence teach us about history in general?
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