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015			_aGBB3B8750 _2bnb
020			_a9781781250495 (pbk.) : _c£9.99
020			_z9781847658883 (eISBN)
040			_aStDuBDS _beng _cStDuBDS _erda
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100	1		_aBeard, Mary, _d1955- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aConfronting the classics : _btraditions, adventures and innovations / _cMary Beard.
263			_a201403
300			_ax, 310 pages ; _c20 cm
500			_aOriginally published: 2013.
505			_aDo 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.
650		0	_aCivilization, Classical.
650		0	_aClassical antiquities.
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