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Confronting the Classics Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781781250495
Publisert
2014-03-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
194 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Beard, Mary

Biographical note

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.

Confronting the Classics Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Beard, Mary
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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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

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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

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.
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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.
Les mer
With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured
Mary Beard takes us on an exhilarating journey through the extraordinary riches of the classical heritage, and why it still matters.

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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

Se alle

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

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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured
Mary Beard takes us on an exhilarating journey through the extraordinary riches of the classical heritage, and why it still matters.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781250495
Publisert
2014-03-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
194 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Beard, Mary

Biographical note

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.

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