Mary Beard takes us on an exhilarating journey through the extraordinary riches of the classical heritage, and why it still matters.
Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life [9781846682513] and All in a Don's Day [9781846685361]. She was in the 2014 Top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.
With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future
of the study of classics is assured
*Daily Telegraph*
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 ... what she says is always
powerful and interesting
*Guardian*
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*
an irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for
convention
*FT*
She stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin
classicists
*New York Review of Books*
Beard is the best...communicator of Classics we have
*Independent on Sunday*
highly engaging
*Sunday Telegraph*
sparkling
*The Lady*
so engaging, and at times so very funny
*Times*
this is the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves
to become something of a standard work in the future
*Observer*
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