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...

"SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome" von Mary Beard ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der römischen Geschichte vom Anfang der Stadt Rom bis zum Höhepunkt des Römischen Reiches. Das Buch stellt traditionelle Erzählungen in Frage und bietet...

Im Jahr 79 n. Chr. regnete glühende Asche auf Pompeji nieder. Lava überflutete Menschen, Tiere und Gebäude - und konservierte sie für die Ewigkeit. Jahrhunderte später ist Pompeji eine der wichtigsten Fundstätten der Archäologie. Die...

THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER24 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS IN THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to...

"SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome" von Mary Beard bietet eine umfassende und lebendige Darstellung der Geschichte des antiken Rom, von seinen Anfängen im 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum Ende des Römischen Reiches im 6. Jahrhundert n. Chr....

Women & Power von Beard, Mary

Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon SchamaThe idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big...

New in paperback, this is an exploration of one of the most intriguing but also trickiest of historical subjects, humour. Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves taking in the hilarious,...

Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as...

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its...

"How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization" von Mary Beard ist ein Begleitbuch zur gleichnamigen BBC-Dokumentarserie. In diesem Werk untersucht Beard die Darstellung des menschlichen Körpers in der Kunst und...

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...