Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard
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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, Classical Traditions captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.
(Reviews: 'With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured', Daily Telegraph, 'So engaging, and at times so very funny', The Times.)
Profile Books; Main Edition (7 Mar. 2013). Hardcover. 384 pages. ISBN-10: 1781250480. ISBN-13: 978-1781250488. As new, unread copy, no remarks.
Only sold for cash in the greater Stockholm area due to previous scams.
Pris: 200.00 kr
ISBN: 978-1781250488
