Confronting the classics : traditions, adventures and innovations / Mary Beard.
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton and Company, 2013Edition: First American EditionDescription: x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780871407160
- 930 .B368
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-295) and index.
"Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists, an academic with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience. Here, she draws on thirty years of teaching about Greek and Roman history to provide a panoramic portrait of the classical world that draws surprising parallels with contemporary society. We are taken on a guided tour of antiquity, encountering some of the most famous (and infamous) characters of classical history, among them Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Sappho and Hannibal. Challenging the notion that classical history is all about depraved emperors and conquering military heroes, Beard also introduces us to the common people--the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? What made them laugh? What were their marriages like? This bottom-up approach to history is typical of Beard, who looks with fresh eyes at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, taking aim at many of the assumptions we held as gospel."--Provided by publisher
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