book
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. New York: Liveright, 2015.
Why this matters here
Mary Beard's history of ancient Rome examines a society whose institutions and self-understandings can be reconstructed only from surviving traces. The epilogue invokes Rome as a historical comparison for how future people might interrogate today's seemingly natural arrangements.
