Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliantacademic,with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience boththough her TV presenting and her books.In a series of sparklingessays,she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama toRoman jokes,introducing some larger-than-life characters of classicalhistory,such as Alexander the Great,Nero and Boudicca. She invites youinto the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died,from the palaceat Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hiddenworld of slaves. She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversiesand 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.
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Publisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781781250495Number of pages: 320Weight: 268 gDimensions: 194 x 126 x 2026 mmEdition: Main
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With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise,the future of the study of classics is assuredShe's pulled off that rare trick of becoming a don with a high media profile who hasn't sold out,who is absolutely respected by the academy for her scholarship...what she says is always powerful and interestingwitty,erudite collection...To Beard,the classical past is alive and kicking - and she has the great gift of being able to show just why classics is still a subject worth arguing aboutan irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for conventionShe stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin classicistsBeard is the best...communicator of Classics we havehighly engagingsparklingso engaging,and at times so very funnythis is the perfect introduction to classical studies,and deserves to become something of a standard work in the future
Mary Beard
Arguably Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University and classics editor of the TLS. Amongst her best known publications are SPQR,Pompeii (accompanying the BBC television series of the same name),Confronting the Classics and It's a Don's Life (based on her regular column for The Times.
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