TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beard,Mary
TI  - Confronting the classics: traditions, adventures, and innovations 
SN  - 9780871408594
U1  - 930 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation
KW  - Civilizzazione
KW  - Età antica
KW  - sbaa
KW  - Antichità classiche
N1  - 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
ER  -