Author:
Mary Beard
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Review by: Mandy Apgar
What the @#$% did I just read? At almost 600 pages of staggering
dullness interrupted by periods of the author's glaring vanity this was
beyond a waste. She mentions rape. A lot. Like more than Claudius, or
Nero pretty much. There are only so many times an author can mention the
Sabines yet again before I get really freaking bored. It was, I
presume, supposed to be an explanation of why the Roman empire and
classical thought sustained itself for so long and has interjected
itself into modern life. But she would just have her little bugaboos
that she wouldn't let up on for pages. The organization doesn't help -
the book is sort of randomly set aside into chapters that
chronologically go back and forth constantly. The prologue is an early
history, first chapter an account of Cicero, the second another early
history, etc... one doesn't even get much to the various emperors until
well past the halfway mark.
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