![]() ![]() For example, we know virtually nothing other than mythology about the founding of the city of Rome. In any event, his decree “changed the Roman world forever,” and this is why the author chose to end her story at that point.īeard’s book is almost as much historiography as history, as she repeatedly relates the nature and limitations of our actual knowledge of the ancient world. ” Overnight, more than 30 million became legal Roman citizens! Nevertheless, she writes, Caracalla is remembered most as the sponsor of the largest set of public baths then built in Rome. This was a revolutionary step, she avers, since it “removed at a stroke the legal difference between the rulers and the ruled. “SPQR” is the abbreviation used by the ancient Romans for “the Senate and People of Rome.” SPQR is Mary Beard’s recounting of the foundation and growth of the Roman Empire up to the year 212 C.E., when Emperor Caracalla made a full Roman citizen of every free inhabitant of the territory ruled by the Empire. ![]()
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