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

The chapters on Octavian and Julius are amazing

“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