{"id":8034,"date":"2018-09-21T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2018-09-21T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:19:32","slug":"roman-history-the-ancient-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"ROMAN HISTORY&#8230;THE ANCIENT VARIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_rgvV3Kon8BhO85&#038;asin=1631492225&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Beard&#8217;s book on Roman History is terrific.\u00a0 SPQR is the famous Roman catchphrase Senatus Populus Que Romanus or The Senate and People of Rome.\u00a0 If you know anything about Mary Beard (perhaps via BBC specials) you know this Cambridge professor is as feisty as she is brilliant.\u00a0 Her writing is magnificent.\u00a0 She knows how to tell the stories of ancient Rome in a way that are accessible and entertaining.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some who are able to spin a good yarn are not careful with the details.\u00a0 Beard goes no further than the evidence will allow for telling this story.\u00a0 In other words, she does not traffic in speculation or try to fill in details we would love to have, but simply do not.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>She does include details that make the story interesting throughout, but these are details we can be pretty confident of.\u00a0 For example, did you know that ancient Rome had one million inhabitants and that no city would have that many people until the nineteenth century?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient Roman history is extremely relevant to the hurly-burly of twenty-first century America. \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly recommended!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Beard&#8217;s book on Roman History is terrific.\u00a0 SPQR is the famous Roman catchphrase Senatus Populus Que Romanus or The Senate and People of Rome.\u00a0 If you know anything about Mary Beard (perhaps via BBC specials) you know this Cambridge professor is as feisty as she is brilliant.\u00a0 Her writing is magnificent.\u00a0 She knows how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,81,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambition","category-historiography","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}