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084 _aDE 59.B43 2013
100 1 _aBeard, Mary,
_d1955-
_1http://viaf.org/viaf/85237799
_9286235
245 1 0 _aConfronting the classics :
_btraditions, adventures, and innovations /
_cMary Beard.
260 _aNew York :
_bLiveright Publishing Corporation,
_cc2013.
300 _ax, 310 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aInclude bibliografia (p. 286-289) e indice.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 7 _aCivilizzazione
_yEtà antica
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650 7 _aAntichità classiche
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