Talking Classics

What's exiting about a piece of bread that is 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned as Vesuvius erupted? In fact, why bother with the distant past at all? In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points up the surprising connections between antiquity and modernity and shows that the life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone and are not the exclusive property of the elite. They help us to enter the world of people who lived long ago - from angry landlords to giggling senators - and to look harder at our own, to see it differently.

From revolutionaries to dictators, and from Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, Mary Beard invokes the varied modern characters who have engaged with the Greeks and Romans. It's not compulsory, she insists, to be excited by the ancient world - but it's a shame not to be.

Forfatter: Mary Beard
Mål: H: 22,3 cm. x B: 14,4 cm.
Side antal: 198
Forlag:  Profile Books Ltd
Udgivet: 2026