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source: bookwyrm
date: 2024-12-30 18:52:54.00 +00
title: "SPQR by Mary Beard"
post_uri: https://bookwyrm.social/user/gravely/comment/6131215
post_id: 6131215
bookwyrm_updated: 2024-12-30T18:52:54.725407+00:00
tags:
  - bookwyrm
book_title: "SPQR"
book_author: "Mary Beard"
book_url: https://bookwyrm.social/book/77879
reading_status: read
---
![Cover of SPQR by Mary Beard, published 2016-09-06 by Liveright Publishing Corporation, Liveright, a 608-page paperback](./cover-6131215.jpeg)

18th book of the year: "SPQR", by Mary Beard

Wanted to read some history after the last few things. Kept seeing Beard press over the years, saw she has a new book out and grabbed a used copy of her old stuff instead.

lotta "assassinated for tyranny after proposing social and/or land use reforms" Kermit-confused-face.bmp

lotta good stuff on how normal people lived