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Confronting the Classics

Confronting the Classics

Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

by Professor Mary Beard
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/03/2013

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Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books.

In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She also invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She brings back to life some of the greatest writers of antiquity - including Thucydides, Cicero and Tacitus - and takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix.

The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.
ISBN:
9781781250488
9781781250488
Category:
Classical history / classical civilisation
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
07-03-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
240x162x29mm
Weight:
0.58kg

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