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

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

Mary Beard

320 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays history challenging informative slow-paced

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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, b...

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informative 100%
challenging 36%
reflective 36%
lighthearted 18%
funny 13%
relaxing 9%
inspiring 4%

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medium 38%

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