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

By: Beard, Mary, 1955- [author.]Description: x, 310 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 9781781250495 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Civilization, Classical | Classical antiquitiesDDC classification: 930

Contents:

Do classics have a future? Ancient Greece. Builder of ruins ; Sappho speaks ; Which Thucydides can you trust? ; Alexander : how great? ; What made the Greeks laugh? Heroes & villains of early Rome. Who wanted Remus dead? ; Hannibal at bay ; Quousque tandem ? ; Roman art thieves ; Spinning Caesar's murder 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 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 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 ; Astérix and the Romans Reviewing classics.

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Item type	Current library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reservations
Book-Reference	Fischer Hall Library Reference	DE59. B43 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		B012635
Book-Circulating	Fischer Hall Library Main shelves	DE59. B43 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B001092

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Originally published: 2013.

Do classics have a future?
Ancient Greece. Builder of ruins ; Sappho speaks ; Which Thucydides can you trust? ; Alexander : how great? ; What made the Greeks laugh?
Heroes & villains of early Rome. Who wanted Remus dead? ; Hannibal at bay ; Quousque tandem
? ; Roman art thieves ; Spinning Caesar's murder
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
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
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 ; Astérix and the Romans
Reviewing classics.