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Mary Beard

Confronting the Classics

Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

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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 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 takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popul… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78125-049-5
  • EAN: 9781781250495
  • Produktnummer: 15571005
  • Verlag: Profile Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
  • Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.1 cm 259 g
  • Gewicht: 259

Über den Autor


Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.

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