Confronting the Classics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting the Classics write by Mary Beard. This book was released on 2013-03-07. Confronting the Classics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome write by Mary Beard. This book was released on 2015-11-09. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.
Pompeii
Pompeii - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pompeii write by Mary Beard. This book was released on 2010-07-09. Pompeii available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.
The Invention of Jane Harrison
The Invention of Jane Harrison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Jane Harrison write by Mary Beard. This book was released on 2002-05-03. The Invention of Jane Harrison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame.
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Classics: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classics: A Very Short Introduction write by Mary Beard. This book was released on 2000-02-24. Classics: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the relationship between the contemporary world and the ancient one.
