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  • Classical Art: From Greece to Rome by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Classical Art: From Greece to Rome

    The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome. Generals,...
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  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Classics: A Very Short Introduction

    We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ...
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  • Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

    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...
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  • Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

    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...
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  • Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

    In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not...
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  • Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World

    In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman...
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  • How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

    Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the...
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  • Invention of Jane Harrison by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Invention of Jane Harrison

    Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman--as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A...
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  • It's a Don's Life by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    It's a Don's Life

    Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the...
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  • Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71 by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71

    What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How...
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  • Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71 by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71

    "Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."--The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."--Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."--The New Yorker "The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."--The Independent What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes...
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  • Religions of Rome: Volume 1, a History by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Religions of Rome: Volume 1, a History

    This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between...
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  • Religions of Rome: Volume 2, a Sourcebook by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Religions of Rome: Volume 2, a Sourcebook

    This book, the second of the two volumes that make up Religions of Rome, presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire (both visual evidence and texts in translation). More than...
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  • Rome in the Late Republic by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Rome in the Late Republic

    This textbook outlines the key features of the period of Rome in the late Republic, from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions. This second edition also contains a new introduction and an updated...
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  • S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome

    In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating...
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  • S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome

    Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war that served as the seat of power for an...
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  • The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

    Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day....
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  • The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

    Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of...
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  • The Parthenon by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    The Parthenon

    Praise for the previous edition: Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history.-Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic In her brief but compendious volume Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less...
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  • The Roman Triumph by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    The Roman Triumph

    It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his most glamorous prisoners, as well as the booty he'd...
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  • Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets...
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  • Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets...
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  • Women & Power: A Manifesto by Beard, Mary
    Mary Beard

    Women & Power: A Manifesto

    At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining...
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