TY - BOOK AU - Beard,Mary TI - Confronting the classics: traditions, adventures and innovations SN - 9781781250495 (pbk.) : U1 - 930 23 KW - Civilization, Classical KW - Classical antiquities N1 - 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 ER -