Confronting the Classics

Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

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Beschreibung

<p>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.<br><br>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 <i>The Golden Bough </i>to Asterix.<br><br>The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, <i>Confronting the Classics </i>captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781781250495

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 128 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Verlag / Hersteller

Profile Books