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An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain''s best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women''s relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, ''it''s time for change - and now!'' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.

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 auf einen faszinierenden Spaziergang durch die Geschichte Pompejis. Sie schildert, wie die Menschen dort gelebt und geliebt haben, beschreibt Häuser, Kneipen und Gärten, Kunstwerke und Dinge des Alltags. Zugleich entlarvt sie die Irrtümer, die Forschern immer wieder unterliefen, und zeigt, wie es wirklich war. Mit jedem faszinierenden Rätsel, das sie dabei präsentiert, wächst die Sehnsucht, diesen Ort mit eigenen Augen zu sehen. »Pompeji« wurde 2008 mit dem renommierten Wolfson History Prize ausgezeichnet. »Dieses fantastische Buch ... ist ein Vorbild für ebenso scharfsinniges wie spannendes Erzählen über die Vergangenheit.« The Guardian

Um dos livros mais importantes que existe sobre Roma Antiga! Cobrindo mil anos da história romana, SPQR revela em detalhes como Roma cresceu de uma vila insignificante na Itália Central para se tornar a primeira potência global. A inglesa Mary Beard, professora de Cambridge e autora de vários best-sellers, vive há mais de 30 anos pesquisando o Império Romano. A partir de inúmeras leituras, estudos de arqueologia e de documentos escritos em pedras e papiros, ela faz uma análise eloquente dessa história e mostra o que os romanos pensavam sobre si mesmos e suas realizações. SPQR é a abreviação que os próprios romanos adotaram para o seu Estado: "Senatus Populus Que Romanus", ou "Senado e o Povo de Roma". Neste livro, Beard detalha como foi formada a identidade e a cidadania romana e mostra porque essa cultura ainda influencia o mundo no século XXI. Com mais de 100 ilustrações e inúmeros mapas, SPQR ficou mais de um ano em listas de best-sellers nos Estados Unidos e na Europa. "Mary Beard explica o que foi o império romano de maneira clara e precisa, com paixão e sem jargões técnicos. SPQR é uma história cruel, mas contada de uma forma maravilhosamente instigante". WALL STREET JOURNAL "Magistral. Um caso exemplar de história popularizada, de leitura envolvente, mas sem simpli cação excessiva, que oferece uma visão abrangente e também detalhes íntimos que dão vida ao passado distante". ECONOMIST "Beard revela os segredos do sucesso da cidade de Roma com uma clareza resoluta e impiedosa que eu não vi igualada em nenhum outro lugar". e New York Times "Se contassem com Mary Beard a seu lado naquela época, os romanos ainda teriam seu império". DAILY MAIL

Durante muito tempo, Pompeia foi uma próspera cidade do Império Romano, até ser devastada, em 79 d.C., por uma das maiores erupções do Vesúvio de que se tem notícia. Ao longo dos anos que se seguiram, e ainda hoje, questões sobre seus habitantes e o estilo de vida que levavam até o fatídico dia em que a cidade sucumbiu à fúria do vulcão povoam a mente de estudiosos e leigos. A especialista em classicismo Mary Beard vai além das questões mais corriqueiras, aprofunda-se em detalhes muitas vezes negligenciados, questiona posições já consagradas por arqueólogos de diversas épocas e desmistifica inúmeros fatos relacionados ao cotidiano daquela população. Com centenas de ilustrações, mapas, plantas baixas e fotografias, este livro conduz o leitor a um mergulho no dia a dia da cidade, em uma viagem pelas ruas e casas desta cidade romana.

"För Beard är den klassiska antiken levande och vid bästa hälsa och hon har den stora gåvan att kunna visa precis varför de klassiska texterna fortfarande är ett ämne värt att diskutera." Sunday Times "Om de hade haft Mary Beard på sin sida när det begav sig skulle romarna fortfarande ha sitt imperium kvar." Daily Mail Antikens Rom är viktigt. Berättelsen om imperiet, erövringarna, grymheterna och överdrifterna ger oss fortfarande idag en måttstock för vårt samhälle. Och än idag är de romerska idealen när det gäller medborgarskap, säkerhet och individens rättigheter samhälleliga rättesnören. Här tittar en av världens främsta forskare inom den klassiska antiken på Roms historia från en ny synvinkel inte bara på dess förbluffande utveckling från en obetydlig by i Mellanitalien till en supermakt, men också på hur romarna såg sig själva och sina bedrifter, och varför de fortfarande är viktiga för oss. Vi följer tusen år av historia, där nytt ljus kastas över det välkända, från slaveri till rinnande vatten, och där demokrati, religionskonflikter, social rörlighet och ekonomiskt utnyttjande utforskas inom det stora sammanhang som är romarriket. Detta är en uttömmande och klargörande historia över det antika Rom.

New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.

Die Autoren dieses Bandes berichten sehr unterhaltsam, unterstützt durch Abbildungen und Cartoons, von dem Entdeckerspaß der Altertumswissenschaftler, aber auch von den Problemen, vor die sie sich bei ihrer Forschung gestellt sehen. Dabei geht es um Kunstraub genauso wie um große Theorien, um moderne Techniken wie um das Beherrschen der alten Sprachen, um das Puzzlespiel der Rekonstruktion wie um das Bild des Altertums im Wandel der Jahrhunderte. Ausgangspunkt sind vereinzelte Stücke eines antiken griechischen Tempels - des Tempels von Bassai -, ausgestellt im Britischen Museum, im Herzen des modernen London.

Draws on a wide range of period writings, from essays on rhetoric to a surviving joke book, to explore the culture of humor in ancient Rome, offering insight into what was considered funny at the time and how everyday Romans expressed their humor. By the author of The Fires of Vesuvius.

Mary Beard, autora de El triunfo romano y una de las mayores autoridades en el estudio de la antigua Roma, nos cuenta una nueva y distinta historia de Pompeya, la ciudad destruida en el año 79 de nuestra era por una erupción del Vesubio. Su libro tiene una doble finalidad. En primer lugar, la de reconstruir lo que fue la vida en Pompeya: los trabajos cotidianos de sus habitantes, el gobierno de la ciudad, los placeres del cuerpo (comida, vino, sexo y baños), las diversiones y los juegos, la religión... Pero también, en segundo lugar, la de combatir los mitos que se han acumulado sobre su historia, comenzando por la dudosa higiene de los baños o el legendario número de burdeles y acabando por la realidad de la catástrofe, de la que nos ofrece una visión muy distinta a la de la leyenda. Mary Beard consigue todo esto en un texto fascinante, que da vida a los más inesperados hallazgos y a lo poco que sabemos de sus habitantes: la sacerdotisa Eumachia; Publio Casca, uno de los asesinos de César; los gladiadores, ídolos de las jovencitas pompeyanas...

"Este libro –nos dice Mary Beard, la más grande figura actual de los estudios clásicos- es un viaje guiado por el mundo clásico, desde el palacio prehistórico de Knossos, en Creta, hasta el imaginario poblado de Astérix, en las Galias". En él nos habla de personajes famosos, como Alejandro el Magno o Nerón, pero también de la gente común, de los esclavos, los soldados o los millones de ciudadanos del Imperio que vivían bajo un régimen de ocupación militar. Este libro recupera sus vidas y costumbres; pero su objeto principal es el de enseñarnos a disfrutar de la riqueza que representa la herencia de los clásicos, donde hay mucho que sigue siendo vivo y palpitante. Un campo del saber que no es sólo tradición, sino también aventura e innovación, donde queda mucho por descubrir y debatir acerca de los más diversos temas: de cuán importante fue realmente Cleopatra, de si Calígula no fue más que un chalado o de cómo se las arreglaron los romanos para adquirir tantos esclavos. "Si los romanos hubieran podido contar en su tiempo con Mary Beard –ha dicho un crítico- conservarían todavía el Imperio".

Mary Beard is one of the world''s best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra''s Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.

Beautiful and wealthy, Anabelle Brice has it all. That is until she meets two men that divide her. Will she choose practical or excitement?

Una brillante dimostrazione che l''erudizione può essere un''avventura emozionante. Un libro colto e appassionante.Tom Holland, "The Guardian"Per Mary Beard la cultura è un abito da indossare con leggerezza. In questo libro ha superato se stessa.Andrew Holgate, "The Sunday Times"La storia di Pompei è più complicata e intrigante di quella che crediamo di sapere. Pompei non è una città romana semplicemente congelata dalla colata lavica.A raccontarci quei giorni e la storia di una città piena di vita è Mary Beard, tra le più originali e note studiose dell''antichità classica.Che città fu Pompei? Che cosa ci dice oggi riguardo alla sua vita, dal sesso alla politica, dal cibo alla religione, dalla schiavitù alla sua cultura? Un gran numero di miti sono crollati: la vera data dell''eruzione, avvenuta probabilmente alcuni mesi dopo quella generalmente considerata; o il leggendario numero di postriboli, che probabilmente era uno solo; come l''alto numero dei morti, forse meno del 10 per cento della popolazione. In ogni angolo troviamo prove illuminanti di quanto Pompei fosse una città multiculturale, vivacissima e ben organizzata: il sistema stradale a senso unico svelato dai solchi del selciato, i vasi di colore abbandonati dai decoratori, le 153 tavolette di cera che testimoniano le registrazioni finanziarie di un banchiere e banditore di aste locale; una statuetta d''avorio di una divinità indiana; un tavolo che appartenne a uno degli assassini di Cesare.Distrutta e messa sottosopra, evacuata e depredata, Pompei serba i segni (e le cicatrici) di storie d''ogni genere, che sono alla base di quello che potremmo chiamare ''il paradosso di Pompei'': ovvero che della vita antica che vi si svolgeva sappiamo contemporaneamente molto più e molto meno di ciò che crediamo. È questa la materia dello straordinario racconto di Mary Beard.Prima del fuoco è la brillante dimostrazione che l''erudizione può essere un''avventura emozionante, da leggere tutta d''un fiato.

Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome’s most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a national symbol of opposition to the death penalty. Its ancient history is chock full of romantic but erroneous myths. There is no evidence that any gladiator ever said “Hail Caesar, those about to die...” and we know of not one single Christian martyr who met his finish here. Yet the reality is much stranger than the legend as the authors, two prominent classical historians, explain in this absorbing account. We learn the details of how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument—as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory. Why are we so fascinated with this arena of death?

Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. In this second collection following on from the success of It''s a Don''s Life, Beard ponders whether Gaddafi''s home is Roman or not, we share her ''terror of humiliation'' as she enters ''hairdresser country'' and follow her dilemma as she wanders through the quandary of illegible handwriting on examination papers and ''longing for the next dyslexic'' - on whose paper the answers are typed, not handwritten. Praise for It''s a Don''s Life ''Delightful... it has the virtues of brevity, eclecticism and learning worn lightly... if they''d had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire'' Daily Mail

Le 25 août 79, l’éruption du Vésuve détruisit la cité romaine de Pompéi, ensevelissant sous une pluie de cendres les fugitifs dont les corps, saisis sur le vif à l’instant de leur mort, ont été conservés jusqu’à nous. Qui étaient ces hommes et ces femmes ? Comment vivaient-ils ? Que peuvent-ils nous apprendre de la vie quotidienne des Romains au Ier siècle de notre ère ? Loin des idées reçues, s’appuyant sur les enseignements les plus récents de l’archéologie et sur les textes des historiens, philosophes, romanciers et poètes latins, Mary Beard redonne vie à la cité antique. Richement illustré, le livre explique l’usage et la signification de différents objets trouvés sous les cendres, décrit l’aménagement des maisons modestes comme des propriétés luxueuses, les commerces, les activités quotidiennes et les jeux, le fonctionnement politique de la cité, ses liens avec Rome. Nous y croisons Scaurus, le vendeur de garum, Eumachia, la prêtresse qui apporta son soutien à la construction d’un des plus grands bâtiments de la ville, Celadus, le gladiateur vedette et bourreau des cœurs, le banquier Jucundus dont les tablettes de cire contiennent les archives de plusieurs décennies de transactions financières, des peintres d’affiches électorales, des tenanciers, des édiles... La célèbre cité antique renaît alors sous nos yeux dans un livre qui parvient à allier grande rigueur scientifique et plaisir de lecture. Mary Beard est professeur d’Histoire antique à l’université de Cambridge. Elle collabore régulièrement au Times Literary Supplement. Traduit de l’anglais par Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat.

Charles Austin Beard was one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women''s suffrage movement and was a life-long advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in both the labor and woman''s rights movements.Contents:IntroductionThe Colonial PeriodThe Great Migration To AmericaColonial Agriculture, Industry, And CommerceSocial And Political ProgressThe Development Of Colonial NationalismConflict And IndependenceThe New Course In British Imperial PolicyThe American RevolutionThe Union And National PoliticsThe Formation Of The ConstitutionThe Men Of The New GovernmentRepublican Principles And PoliciesThe West And Jacksonian DemocracyThe Farmers Beyond The AppalachiansJacksonian DemocracyThe Middle Border And The Great WestSectional Conflict And ReconstructionThe Rise Of The Industrial SystemThe Planting System And National PoliticsNational Growth And World PoliticsPolitical and Economic Changes Of The SouthBusiness Enterprise And The Republican PartyThe Development Of The Great WestDomestic Issues Before The Country America A World Power Progressive Democracy And World WarThe Evolution Of Republican Policies The Spirit Of Reform In AmericaThe New Political DemocracyIndustrial DemocracyPresident Wilson And The World War

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 academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting -- ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will inform, occasionally provoke and cannot fail to entertain.

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 ''The world''s most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy'' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain''s favourite classicist.

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Here, acclaimed historian Beard explores what kind of town it was, and what it can reveal about "ordinary" life there.

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS. This work is revised and updated to include the story of the New Acropolis Museum, the controversies that have surrounded it, and whether it makes a difference to the ''Elgin Marble debate''. As so often with the Parthenon, there are all kinds of surprises. The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world''s most famous images. Its ''looted'' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess Athena, the divine patroness of ancient Athens.

Mary Beard and John Henderson link 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. Rather than focusing on the traditional retelling of the classics, the authors concentrate on one particular artifact-the friezes from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae in Arcadia-as a springboard to explore, define, and debate the relationship between our contemporary world and the ancient one.

It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his most glamorous prisoners, as well as the booty he’d captured, from enemy ships and precious statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally there was so much on display that the show lasted two or three days. A radical reexamination of this most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman triumph, but also its darker side. What did it mean when the axle broke under Julius Caesar’s chariot? Or when Pompey’s elephants got stuck trying to squeeze through an arch? Or when exotic or pathetic prisoners stole the general’s show? And what are the implications of the Roman triumph, as a celebration of imperialism and military might, for questions about military power and “victory” in our own day? The triumph, Mary Beard contends, prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrate military glory. Her richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture—and for monarchs, dynasts and generals ever since. But how can we re-create the ceremony as it was celebrated in Rome? How can we piece together its elusive traces in art and literature? Beard addresses these questions, opening a window on the intriguing process of sifting through and making sense of what constitutes “history.”