When I read Emma Southon’s A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum I was pleased by the way Southon’s immense understanding of the available primary and secondary sources historians have available to work from regarding Roman history impact the ways in which we can know anything at all about things that happened so long ago. That same nuance in explaining the sources – and how much they can or cannot be trusted – is utilized to great degree in A Rome of One’s Own as Southon begins […]
“…the glorious Republic cannot rise unless the monarchy falls and the monarchy cannot fall unless two women bring it down.”
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon