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 & 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 & Boudicca She invites you into the places where Greeks & Romans lived & died from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria
- & reveals the often hidden world of slaves She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies & 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 & its modern significance with wit verve & scholarly expertise