/lit/ - Literature

>>12340338
I'm mad about everything, this book just happened to get in my way.

>>12340341
fight me little bitch

>>12340341
>I'm mad about everything
this

Anons are perpetually butthurt and look for the slightest thing to bitch and moan over.

>>12340338
You’re the only one who seems to be hung up on it the way you are spamming it. I haven’t gotten around to it yet since I work chronologically.

>>12340338
>look mom I posted it again

>>12340338
>mfw it's actually a reasonable introduction to Roman history, allowing someone to be aware of the long term picture while they go back and read primary sources

Mary Beard is full of interesting factoids

>reading SPQR by Mary BEARD
>not reading The Romans: From Village to Empire by Mary Boatwright
never gonna make it

Mary Beard has quite the rolodex, haha

>>12340390
Is that a real Roman mosaic? It's fantastic

>>12340978
Yes it is. It's extremely well done

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>>12340984
I think it is actually a fresco, not a mosaic

>>12340757
I smash beers with the Doctor who helped write themes in Roman Society every Friday. That man is an absolute unit and Dominus

Mary Beard is like the neil degrass dyson of book research. Shes soo busy, i hope she can still honor the Sabbath

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>>12340384
Whoever did his should write a book.

>>12340338
*blocks Mary Beard's path*

>>12340338
This belongs on /his/
MODS

>>12340757
SPQR has better rating on Goodreads - which is the best metric in the world for determining a quality read - especially compared to an anon faggot on 4channel.

I wil stick with SPQR by Mary Beard, thanks!

>>12340757
>rome:total war
thats hilarious af

>>12340989
I see little colored pieces. It’s a mosaic alright.

>>12341492
Talib is an ass

>>12340338
Nobody fucking cares. Mary, please stop spamming your book.

>>12342467
>SPQR has better rating on Goodreads - which is the best metric in the world for determining a quality read
You best take this (You) and move along fren!

The only threads I've seen about this book recently have been about how /lit/ is unhappy with this book, which rather suggests that it's the people who appreciate the book who are mad about defending it.

>>12343239
>t. IYI

>>12340390
Based mosaic

>>12343107
Who made this shit and why, what the fuck

>>12340757
are these text books? That oxford publishing book is like 50 dollars

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>>12340384
really wanted to be true
beautiful

Mom I posted it again.

>>12345225
Boatwrights stuff is a textbook, will cost you a lot of money. Readable stuff.
Goldsworthy's stuff is sniffed at by most academics but it might be an ok introduction for the masses
SPQR is an alright read.
Most classical history books that go into miscellaneous topics will cost you a fair buck.
I unironically completed a degree in Ancient and Medieval History because I fell in love having read Greek myths as a child and played the shit out of Rome Total War.

>>12346099
>Boatwrights stuff is a textbook, will cost you a lot of money. Readable stuff.
I just got Boatwright's textbook like new for $4 and change.

>>12341492
Get out of here, ARAB.

>>12346099
Also to add, Potter's Companion to the Roman Empire is really comprehensive and what you need from a text book. I't s a bit more advanced than Boatwright's. Woolf's 'Rome: An Empire's Story' is an easy read in the vein of Goldsworthy.
Also, worth mentioning: the Cambridge Ancient History was fully uploaded online when I checked a few years ago.

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>>12341129
Who created these? Did they tweet them to her?

>>12340338
>mary beard

>>12346224

Mary Beard would probably get a real kick out of knowing one of her enthusiastic fans screenshotted, cropped and posted some of her more woke tweets.

>shitting on mary beard while recommending goldsworthy
/lit/ never ceases to amuse

>>12340338
>book written by a woman
lol