It's a Don's Life Contributor(s): Beard, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1846682517 ISBN-13: 9781846682513 Publisher: Ips - Profile Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2010 Annotation: "While many scholars build careers through increasingly elaborate reconstructions of the ancient world, [Mary] Beard consistently stresses the limits of our knowledge, the precariousness of our constructs and the ambiguity or contradiction inherent in many of our sources."--New York Times for The Fires of Vesuvius In her now-famous blog, Mary Beard has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are classics, universities, and teaching, but she covers many other topics. This selection of entries from the blog will inform, provoke, and cannot fail to entertain. On a good week, Mary's blog receives a staggering forty thousand hits a day. Find it at: http: //timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/ Mary Beard is professor of classics at Cambridge and classics editor at The Times Literary Supplement. Her books include The Fires of Vesuvius, The Roman Triumph, and The Parthenon. |
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BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Literary Collections | Essays |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
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Publisher Description: Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting - ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will inform, occasionally provoke and cannot fail to entertain. |