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Confronting the classics : traditions, adventures, and innovations / Mary Beard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2013.Description: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780871408594
  • 9780871407160
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930 23
Other classification:
  • DE 59.B43 2013
Contents:
Introduction: Do Classics Have a Future? -- Section One. Ancient Greece -- Builder of Ruins -- Sappho Speaks -- Which Thucydides Can You Trust? -- Alexander : How Great? -- What Made the Greeks Laugh? -- Section Two. Heroes & Villains of Early Rome -- Who Wanted Remus Dead? -- Hannibal At Bay -- Quousque Tandem É? -- Roman Art Thieves -- Spinning Caesar's Murder -- Section Three. Imperial Rome/Emperors, Empresses & Enemies -- Looking for the Emperor -- Cleopatra : The Myth -- Married to the Empire -- Caligula's Satire? -- Nero's Colosseum? -- British Queen -- Bit-Part Emperors -- Hadrian and his Villa -- Section Four. Rome from the Bottom Up -- Ex-Slaves and Snobbery -- Fortune-Telling, Bad Breath and Stress -- Keeping the Armies out of Rome -- Life and Death in Roman Britain -- South Shields Aramaic -- Section Five. Arts & Culture; Tourists & Scholars -- Only Aeschylus Will Do? -- Arms and the Man -- Don't Forget Your Pith Helmet -- Pompeii for the Tourists -- The Golden Bough -- Philosophy meets Archaeology -- What Gets Left Out -- Asterix and the Romans -- Afterword: Reviewing Classics.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Opera (Magaz.) Opera (Magaz.) Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Magazzino DE 59.B43 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0030200690

Include bibliografia (p. 286-289) e indice.

Introduction: Do Classics Have a Future? -- Section One. Ancient Greece -- Builder of Ruins -- Sappho Speaks -- Which Thucydides Can You Trust? -- Alexander : How Great? -- What Made the Greeks Laugh? -- Section Two. Heroes & Villains of Early Rome -- Who Wanted Remus Dead? -- Hannibal At Bay -- Quousque Tandem É? -- Roman Art Thieves -- Spinning Caesar's Murder -- Section Three. Imperial Rome/Emperors, Empresses & Enemies -- Looking for the Emperor -- Cleopatra : The Myth -- Married to the Empire -- Caligula's Satire? -- Nero's Colosseum? -- British Queen -- Bit-Part Emperors -- Hadrian and his Villa -- Section Four. Rome from the Bottom Up -- Ex-Slaves and Snobbery -- Fortune-Telling, Bad Breath and Stress -- Keeping the Armies out of Rome -- Life and Death in Roman Britain -- South Shields Aramaic -- Section Five. Arts & Culture; Tourists & Scholars -- Only Aeschylus Will Do? -- Arms and the Man -- Don't Forget Your Pith Helmet -- Pompeii for the Tourists -- The Golden Bough -- Philosophy meets Archaeology -- What Gets Left Out -- Asterix and the Romans -- Afterword: Reviewing Classics.