Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

Confronting the Classics

Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

By
Mary Beard
Mary Beard
2013 • 321 pages

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Antiquity

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Antiquity
Myths of the Sacred Tree
The Language of the Goddess
Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Istanbul

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History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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Ancient Greece

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Lysistrata
The Penelopiad
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Medea and Other Plays
Nobody's Princess
The Song of Achilles
Circe

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History Ancient Rome

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Constantine's Sword
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

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History Ancient

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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
Sex and Punishment

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Ancient Rome

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The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Dovekeepers
Rav Hisda's daughter, book I, apprentice
Lavinia

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Ancient History

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The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Libraries in the Ancient World
Hypatia of Alexandria
Flow down like silver