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Mary Beard is one of the top historians of Rome living today. She tells you at the beginning of her book that she prefers to talk about the rise rather than the fall, at least in this work. This is about a truly pre-European time, the western lands being tribal and clannish, the kingdoms fighting among themselves. The Romans only really had trouble with them when they began to unify. Beard's writing is not at all dry, so not at all like a textbook. Many times it feels like she's having a great conversations with you, backed up by 50 years of research.
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Mary Beard is one of the top historians of Rome living today. She tells you at the beginning of her book that she prefers to talk about the rise rather than the fall, at least in this work. This is about a truly pre-European time, the western lands being tribal and clannish, the kingdoms fighting among themselves. The Romans only really had trouble with them when they began to unify. Beard's writing is not at all dry, so not at all like a textbook. Many times it feels like she's having a great conversations with you, backed up by 50 years of research.
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