SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

ISBN-13: 9781846683817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 608 str.

Professor Mary Beard

Opis

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire. A major new BBC TV series presented by the author starts in May 2016.

Recenzje

Fast-moving, exciting, psychologically acute, warmly sceptical Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times

O autorze

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).