![]() ![]() The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations Server Costs Fundraiser 2023 Help our mission to provide free history education to the world Please donate to our server cost fundraiser 2023, so that we can produce more history articles, videos and translations. She brings back to life some of the greatest writers of antiquity - including Thucydides, Cicero and Tacitus - and takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. Rather, 'the study of the Classics is the study of what happens in the gap between antiquity and ourselves.' Its the back-and-forth sparring between betweeded Oxford dons, its Picasso and Shakespeare, its Ben-Hur and Gladiator its anything that engages in or, as the wonderful title suggests, confronts that gilded and gargantuan Greco-Roman world. ![]() ![]() She also invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. ![]()
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