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• Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2013

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With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured.

Many of us studied classics not only to read what was written in Latin, but also because poets, writers, and thinkers had blazed a brilliant trail. Beard conveys in her survey of the subject and the people who study it the excitement and romance of that tradition. For someone who has argued vehemently against the need to be glamorous, she makes the study of classics irresistibly attractive. --A.E. Stallings

In this thought-provoking collection of essays and book reviews, Cambridge classicist Mary Beard explores the reasons that ancient Greece and Rome still matter.... Lively and engaging, Beard's scholarship brings Pericles, Antony, Nero--and other ancient titans--back to life.

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Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.

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