![]() ![]() She stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin classicists ( New York Review of Books)īeard is the best. ![]() Witty, erudite collection.To Beard, the classical past is alive and kicking - and she has the great gift of being able to show just why classics is still a subject worth arguing about ( Sunday Times)Īn irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention ( FT) Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations By Mary Beard Profile Books, 384pp, £25. what she says is always powerful and interesting ( Guardian) 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. She's pulled off that rare trick of becoming a don with a high media profile who hasn't sold out, who is absolutely respected by the academy for her scholarship. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations. ![]() ![]() With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured ( Daily Telegraph) ![]()
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