Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

by Mary Beard

Book Overview

Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people--the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871408597
• ISBN13: 9780871408594
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"