| Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations Contributor(s): Beard, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0871407167 ISBN-13: 9780871407160 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Rome - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 930 |
| LCCN: 2013016133 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Greece - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beard, Mary: - A professor of classics at Cambridge University, Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling SPQR and Women & Power and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. |