Blackwell's has named Mary Beard's SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile) as its Book of the Year for 2016. In her book, Beard, professor of Classics at Cambridge University, takes a new look at ...
“Et tu, Brute?” asks Julius Caesar in the titular play by Shakespeare. “Are you not entertained!?” roars Russell Crowe’s character to the crowd after slaying his opponent in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator.
Do you have fond memories of your favorite history professor, who could engagingly convey lots of information, filling in along the way the process of how it came to be known? Maybe he or she also ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SPQR by Mary Beard subtly invites the reader to speculate upon the parallels between the modern world and ancient civilisation. As 2015 ...
The author of numerous works on ancient history, including biographies of Augustus and Hadrian, Prof. Everitt (Nottingham Trent), gives us a witty, insightful introductory guidebook to Roman history, ...
John Maddox Roberts, Author. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.92 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-27257-9 The first line of Roberts's (Saturnalia) sixth SPQR mystery, "I blame it all on Alexander the Great," sets ...
Back in 2008, A16 and SPQR owner and sommelier Shelley Lindgren put out a book called A16 Food + Wine with then chef Nate Appleman, concentrating on the cuisine and wines of the southern Italian ...
Blackwell's has named Mary Beard's SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile) as its Book of the Year for 2016. In her book, Beard, professor of Classics at Cambridge University, takes a new look at ...
In what is certainly not a traditional treatment, the brilliant and witty Prof. Beard (Cambridge), author of The Roman Triumph and many other works, takes us on a thoughtful walk through the story of ...
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