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24 alternatives to SPQR
History of Ancient Rome
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SPQR launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Engaging survey of incredible stories from 1095 - 1453 CE
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Driving home from work one day, I wanted to know how many people we knew the names of who lived during the Roman era. Searching around, I found lists of Consuls and officials, but nothing that covered ordinary people or even most people like freedmen and slaves. So I ended up building a pipeline to process the more than 500k Latin inscriptions in the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/en/ and extract the names of people (and attempt to cluster them, but this is a work in progress). There are databases where Classicists have done this manually for…
Jun 2026 · new.roman-names.com · its alternatives →
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Suetonius' biography of the Roman elite rulers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Thousands of ancient manuscripts now available online free
2015 · vaticanlibrary.va · its alternatives →
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A fascinating look at the oldest and biggest questions huma…
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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Investigates the myriad board games around the world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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histories▲226Explore history of places through audio stories & fun facts
2024 · pardoesoudewater.nl · its alternatives →
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Discover significant historical events depicted in pics
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Bone Rooms▲73From scientific racism to human prehistory in museums
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Genghis Khan▲89How Khan and the Mongols shaped the modern world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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A riveting history of programming
2017 · theprogrammersodyssey.com · its alternatives →
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