SPQR: A Roman Miscellany

by Anthony Everitt (Author)

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  Paperback
  2015

  $3.40

  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.