Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Kurzinformation
inkl. MwSt. Versandinformationen
Artikel zZt. nicht lieferbar
Artikel zZt. nicht lieferbar
Beschreibung
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. von Beard, Mary
Produktdetails
So garantieren wir Dir zu jeder Zeit Premiumqualität.
Über den Autor
Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
- Taschenbuch
- 284 Seiten
- Erschienen 2002
- Routledge
- Hardcover
- 308 Seiten
- Erschienen 2018
- Springer
- Hardcover
- 280 Seiten
- Erschienen 2019
- MANGO
- Taschenbuch
- 464 Seiten
- Erschienen 2012
- The MIT Press
- Hardcover
- 200 Seiten
- Erschienen 1994
- Praeger
- Taschenbuch
- 240 Seiten
- Erschienen 2010
- Harriman House
- Taschenbuch
- 308 Seiten
- Erschienen 2002
- Cambridge University Press
- Hardcover
- 160 Seiten
- Erschienen 2014
- Wiley-Blackwell