[PDF.85tw] Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

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 | #477149 in Books |  Beard Mary |  2014-10-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.30 x.90 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||75 of 76 people found the following review helpful.| nothing if not critical|By Stanley Crowe|I enjoyed this book very much, but anyone tempted to buy it should understand what it is: a collection of review essays on classical figures and topics, sensibly organized both chronologically and thematically -- but it is emphatically NOT itself a history of the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome. Those "confronting the classics" are|From Publishers Weekly|Offering up 30 years of pointed insights and inquisitions, Cambridge classics professor Beard (The Fires of Vesuvius) returns with a collection of primarily reprinted reviews of her classicist peers' work that somehow manages to touch on n

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is “the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work” (Observer).

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 com...

You easily download any file type for your device.Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations   |  Mary Beard. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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