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SPQR: A Roman Miscellany

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

SPQR: A Roman Miscellany

By Anthony Everitt

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About the book

SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world. Do you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or why a dinner party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying prospect? Or why Roman women smelt so odd? The answers to these questions can be found in SPQR, a compendium of extraordinary facts and anecdotes about ancient Rome and its Empire. Its 500-odd entries range across...Show more

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9781781855690

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Head of Zeus

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2014

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SPQR: A Roman Miscellany

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Hardcover

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