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  • SPQR

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This summary of Mary Beard's SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is aimed at those who want to capture the gist of the book. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer.

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  • Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard is a single-volume history of Ancient Rome. The book covers Roman history from its semimythical origins in roughly 753 BC to the decision by Emperor Caracalla in 212 CE to make all free adult males born within the empire Roman citizens....

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