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SPQR
In the autumn of 63 BCE, Cicero stood before the Roman Senate and delivered one of the most famous speeches in human history: a denunciation of Catiline, a bankrupt aristocrat who had allegedly plotted to overthrow the Republic. Mary Beard opens SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome at precisely this moment, not because Cicero’s oration…
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