SPQR: History of Ancient Rome. 2nd edition, processed. Bird M.

Ancient Rome is the topic of universal interest, the experiments of acquaintance with its images and history accompany us in sciences, literature, art. But how close to reality are our ideas about that era? The book of Mary Bird, one of the leading world experts in ancient history, will inevitably change many of them. The Senate and the people, Cicero and Catalin, Hannibal, Caesar, Cleopatra, August and Nero... Describing the relationship between the authorities and man, the political structure and conflicts, the formation of statehood and the empire, famous and unknown Romans, the author crashes many myths, forces according to -In a look at many events of a long history. There is all the best that the reader can find in popular science literature: deep and comprehensive knowledge about the subject, the magnificent language of the narrator, the ability to convey the pulse of everyday life. Reading about the distant past, we empathize with him as if we were reading the blog of Cicero himself, as if playing bones in the Pompey tavern.