Mary Beard: 26 books
by Mary Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
**New York Times Bestseller • National Book Critics Circle Finalist • Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 • Economist Books of the Year 2015 • New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2015
A sweeping, "magisterial" history of...
by Professor Mary Beard
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are...
Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What...
by Mary BEARD
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Véritable phénomène : LA synthèse qui révise l'histoire de Rome, de sa fondation à sa chute, par une immense historienne anglaise.
L'ancienne Rome continue de soutenir l'édifice de la culture occidentale, de façonner notre vision du monde et la place que nous y occupons. Mais comment et pourquoi...
SPQR
een geschiedenis van het Romeinse rijk
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Het oude Rome is belangrijk. De geschiedenis van het rijk, van zijn veroveringen, wreedheid en uitspattingen, is voor ons nog altijd een ijkpunt. Zijn mythen, verhalen, disputen en problemen houden ons nog altijd bezig.
SPQR biedt een frisse kijk op de Romeinse geschiedenis door een van ’s werelds...
by Mary Beard
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Toda civilización se configura en torno a unas imágenes compartidas colectivamente. Sus miembros se caracterizan por un modo peculiar de ver el mundo en que viven, de modo que la diferencia de las percepciones marca la diversidad de cada civilización. Mary Beard lo ilustra con una doble y fascinante...
Pompeji
Das Leben in einer römischen Stadt
Language: German
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Im Jahr 79 n. Chr. regnete glühende Asche auf Pompeji nieder. Lava überflutete Menschen, Tiere und Gebäude – und konservierte sie für die Ewigkeit. Jahrhunderte später ist Pompeji eine der wichtigsten Fundstätten der Archäologie. Die weltweit bekannte Historikerin Mary Beard nimmt uns mit...
by Mary Beard, John Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily:...
by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1998
This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative...
by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1998
Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years...
History of the United States (Vol. 1-7)
The Great Migration, The American Revolution, The Formation of the Constitution, Foundations of the Union, Civil War and Reconstruction, America as World Power (From the Colonial Period to World War I)
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "History of the United States" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "History of the United States" is a monumental synthesis of American History subsequently produced by Charles A. Beard and his wife,...
History of the United States
Illustrated Edition: The Great Migration, The American Revolution, The Formation of the Constitution, Foundations of the Union, Civil War and Reconstruction, America as World Power (From the Colonial Period to World War I)
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
"History of the United States" is a monumental synthesis of American History subsequently produced by Charles A. Beard and his wife, Mary R. Beard. This book covers a period of more than 350 years, from the beginning of American Colonization to the establishment of The League of Nations...
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