New York Times Bestseller. Mary Beard's "magisterial" history shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (The Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic upon its publication, Mary Beard narrates ...

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is "the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work" (Observer). Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writ...

Praise for the previous edition: "Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history." –Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic "In her brief but compendious volume [Beard] ...

Britain's best known classicist speaks her mind on the ancient, and modern, worlds."You don't have to be interested in Greek urns to get a kick out of reading Mary's blog."—Chris Vallance, BBC Radio 4"A Don's Life is ...