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ISBN: 978-0500297056 Thames & Hudson Ltd. (2023)-£12.99
Reducing the history of any culture down to a number of representative lives is fraught with danger. Important aspects of the culture or its history can be overlooked (or indeed over-emphasized), over-simplified, or missed out entirely. Here, Matyszak and Berry give us almost as wide a range of lives as possible – from Faustulus (the shepherd who adopted Romulus and Remus) in the eighth century BC through to