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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Adelene Buckland
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Description for Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
paperback. Explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of history, such as Alexander the Great, and Nero. The author 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. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
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 popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781250495
SKU
V9781781250495
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About Adelene Buckland
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.
Reviews for Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured
Daily Telegraph
She's pulled off that rare trick of becoming a don with a high media profile who hasn't sold out, who is absolutely respected by the academy for her scholarship ... what she says is always powerful and interesting
Guardian
witty, erudite collection...To Beard, the classical past is alive and kicking - and she has the great gift of being able to show just why classics is still a subject worth arguing about
Sunday Times
an irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention
FT
She stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin classicists
New York Review of Books
Beard is the best...communicator of Classics we have
Independent on Sunday
highly engaging
Sunday Telegraph
sparkling
The Lady
so engaging, and at times so very funny
Edith Hall
Times
this is the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work in the future
Observer
Daily Telegraph
She's pulled off that rare trick of becoming a don with a high media profile who hasn't sold out, who is absolutely respected by the academy for her scholarship ... what she says is always powerful and interesting
Guardian
witty, erudite collection...To Beard, the classical past is alive and kicking - and she has the great gift of being able to show just why classics is still a subject worth arguing about
Sunday Times
an irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention
FT
She stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin classicists
New York Review of Books
Beard is the best...communicator of Classics we have
Independent on Sunday
highly engaging
Sunday Telegraph
sparkling
The Lady
so engaging, and at times so very funny
Edith Hall
Times
this is the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work in the future
Observer