Confronting the classics
traditions adventures and innovations
Confronting the classics
traditions adventures and innovations
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| 37413314800303 | Disponible | Non-fiction | 930 BEARD |
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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
2013.
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| Édition: | First American edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Confronting the classics : |b traditions, adventures, and innovations / |c Mary Beard. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, |c 2013. | |
| 300 | |a x, 310 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Civilization, Classical. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Classical antiquities. | |
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