Anthony Everitt: SPQR: A Roman Miscellany
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Author: Anthony Everitt
Number of Pages: 352 pages
Published Date: 01 Nov 2015
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781781859414
Download Link: Click Here
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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 every area of Roman life and society, from the Empress Livia's cure for tonsillitis to the most reliable Roman methods of contraception.