Confronting the classics : traditions, adventures, and innovations
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Confronting the classics : traditions, adventures, and innovations
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013
First American edition
- : hardcover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: Do Classics Have a Future?
- Section One. Ancient Greece
- Builder of Ruins
- Sappho Speaks
- Which Thucydides Can You Trust?
- Alexander : How Great?
- What Made the Greeks Laugh?
- Section Two. Heroes & Villains of Early Rome
- Who Wanted Remus Dead?
- Hannibal At Bay
- Quousque Tandem É?
- Roman Art Thieves
- Spinning Caesar's Murder
- Section Three. Imperial Rome/Emperors, Empresses & Enemies
- Looking for the Emperor
- Cleopatra : The Myth
- Married to the Empire
- Caligula's Satire?
- Nero's Colosseum?
- British Queen
- Bit-Part Emperors
- Hadrian and his Villa
- Section Four. Rome from the Bottom Up
- Ex-Slaves and Snobbery
- Fortune-Telling, Bad Breath and Stress
- Keeping the Armies out of Rome
- Life and Death in Roman Britain
- South Shields Aramaic
- Section Five. Arts & Culture; Tourists & Scholars
- Only Aeschylus Will Do?
- Arms and the Man
- Don't Forget Your Pith Helmet
- Pompeii for the Tourists
- The Golden Bough
- Philosophy meets Archaeology
- What Gets Left Out
- Asterix and the Romans
- Afterword: Reviewing Classics
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Description
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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