Confronting the classics

traditions adventures and innovations

Confronting the classics

traditions adventures and innovations
Mary Beard
Book - 2013
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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beard, Mary, 1955-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Edición:First American edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Do Classics Have a Future? -- Section One. Ancient Greece -- Builder of Ruins -- Sappho Speaks -- Which Thucydides Can You Trust? -- Alexander : How Great? -- What Made the Greeks Laugh? -- Section Two. Heroes & Villains of Early Rome -- Who Wanted Remus Dead? -- Hannibal At Bay -- Quousque Tandem ...? -- Roman Art Thieves -- Spinning Caesar's Murder -- Section Three. Imperial Rome : Emperors, Empresses & Enemies -- Looking for the Emperor -- Cleopatra : The Myth -- Married to the Empire -- Caligula's Satire? -- Nero's Colosseum? -- British Queen -- Bit-Part Emperors -- Hadrian and his Villa -- Section Four. Rome from the Bottom Up -- Ex-Slaves and Snobbery -- Fortune-Telling, Bad Breath and Stress -- Keeping the Armies out of Rome -- Life and Death in Roman Britain -- South Shields Aramaic -- Section Five. Arts & Culture; Tourists & Scholars -- Only Aeschylus Will Do? -- Arms and the Man -- Don't Forget Your Pith Helmet -- Pompeii for the Tourists -- The Golden Bough -- Philosophy meets Archaeology -- What Gets Left Out -- Astérix and the Romans -- Afterword: Reviewing Classics. 
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