Noah Reimer’s Reviews > SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome > Status Update

“In extending citizenship to people who had no direct territorial connections with the city of Rome, they broke the link, which most people in the classical world took for granted, between citizenship and a single city. They made it possible not just to become Roman but also to be a citizen of two places at once ones home town and Rome. This model was extended overseas and eventually underpinned the Roman Empire”

Early Roman warlords are interesting

Romulus is not the founding father you want your child to look up to

Dr Mary Beard is an excellent author. Such a fun and educating book