Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations - Rilegato

Mary Beard

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ISBN 10: 1781250480 ISBN 13: 9781781250488

Casa editrice: Profile Books, 2013

Riassunto

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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'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

'She stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin classicists' New York Review of Books

'Beard is a very funny and penetrating commentator... and has a fantastic knack for controversy. If they'd had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire' Daily Mail

'Beard is the best ... communicator of Classics we have' Independent on Sunday

'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

'Highly engaging' Sunday Telegraph

'With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured' Daily Telegraph

'So engaging, and at times so very funny'The Times

'This is the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work in the future' Observer

'An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention' FT

'Engaging ... impressive ... Through her lively discussion of modern scholarship, Ms Beard succeeds in her goal of proving that study of the Classics is 'still a 'work in progress' not 'done and dusted'.' --The Economist

'In every essay there is a spiky thesis or sharp observation that makes one take notice ... stimulating stuff' --BBC History Magazine

Descrizione del libro:

Now in paperback, 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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• Editore: Profile Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781250480
• ISBN 13: 9781781250488
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384