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The Roman Triumph

by Mary Beard

Harvard University Press

October 2007, 438 pages, $29.95

by Frank Wilson

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

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Classics professor Mary Beard marshals evidence like a good forensic specialist out to solve a crime.

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