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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary BeardPublish date:2014-10-06Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780871408594ISBN-10:871408597UPC:9780871408594Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientBook Topic:Rome, GreeceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCPD8VFR8G
Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people--the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or, perhaps just as important, how did they clean their teeth? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard forces us along the way to reexamine so many of the assumptions we held as gospel--not the least of them the perception that the Emperor Caligula was bonkers or Nero a monster. With capacious wit and verve, Beard demonstrates that, far from being carved in marble, the classical world is still very much alive.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780871408594ISBN-10:871408597UPC:9780871408594Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AncientBook Topic:Rome, GreeceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCPD8VFR8G
Beard, Mary: - A professor of classics at Cambridge University, Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling SPQR and Women & Power and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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