Mary Beard
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. 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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists, an academic with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience. Here, she draws on thirty years of teaching about Greek and Roman history to provide a panoramic portrait of the classical world that draws surprising parallels with contemporary society. We are taken on a guided tour of antiquity, encountering some of the most famous (and infamous) characters of classical history, among them...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of
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Physical Description
360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was -- more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol? -- and what it can tell us about "ordinary" life there. --from publisher description.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
xi, 376 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture wars"-Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than...
10) Classics
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
181 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 1
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Description
145 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
12 audio discs (14 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"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 history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire, beginning with Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) and taking us through the nearly three centuries--and some thirty...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
xxviii, 393 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives pose a question that haunts us still: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders. This reader's edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context in the Preface and Introduction."--Provided by...