Professor Mary Beard

Pompeii

The Life of a Roman Town

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy - scrutinising and animated in equal measure' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781846684715
• ISBN-10: 1846684714
• Artikelnr.: 31051521

Autorenporträt

Mary Beard is one of the most original and best-known classicists working today. She is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include the Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008) and the best-selling SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (2015). Her popular TLS blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. Her latest book is Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017).

Rezensionen

This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past Judith Rice Guardian