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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations - Softcover

Beard, Mary

 
9780871408594: Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0871408597 ISBN 13: 9780871408594
Verlag: LIVERIGHT PUB CORP, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.

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Verlag
LIVERIGHT PUB CORP
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0871408597
ISBN 13 
9780871408594
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
310
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