Companion to the BBC series CIVILISATIONS
Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College,
Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide
academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling,
Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Parthenon, Confronting the
Classics and SPQR and Women and Power. Her blog has been collected
in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in
the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in
the world.
Find her on Twitter @wmarybeard
Excellent ... an invigorating guide
*Guardian*
Beautifully produced and elegantly written ... utterly
compelling
*Irish Times*
Enthralling
*Sunday Times*
Slim yet insightful. . . . Beard expands her view beyond western
Europe to offer an admirable survey of cultures from Egypt to
China, Judaism to Christianity, centuries past to the modern era,
all while emphasizing the significance of the viewer over the
artist. . . . As Beard emphasizes the power of the context in which
we look at and interpret art, she ultimately suggests that
civilization itself is a leap of faith. Beard is having fun in this
joyfully accessible primer, backed with a robust appendix, for all
interested in a new perspective on religion, art, and history.
*Booklist*
Praise for Mary Beard: What she says is always powerful and
interesting
*Guardian*
An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for
convention
*Financial Times*
If they'd had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would
still have their empire
*Daily Mail*
[She] implicitly invites us to think about our own world, and about
our answers to the question of what makes us human
*Sydney Morning Herald*
With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future
of the study of classics is assured
*Daily Telegraph*
Praise for SPQR: Fast-moving, exciting, psychologically acute,
warmly sceptical
*Sunday Times*
Vastly engaging ... a tremendously enjoyable and scholarly read
*Observer*
Sustaining the energy that such a topic demands for more than 600
pages, while providing a coherent answer to the question of why
Rome expanded so spectacularly, is hugely ambitious. Beard succeeds
triumphantly ... full of insights and delights ... SPQR is
consistently enlivened by Beard's eye for detail and her excellent
sense of humour
*Sunday Times*
Masterful ... This is exemplary popular history, engaging but never
dumbed down, providing both the grand sweep and the intimate
details that bring the distant past vividly to life
*Economist*
Ground-breaking ... invigorating ... revolutionary ... a whole new
approach to ancient history
*Spectator*
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