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All in a Don's Day by Mary Beard
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Mary Beard's famous blog 'A Don's Life' has been running on the TLS website for nearly five years. Through it she 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. In this second colle ...Show more
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard
26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Civilisations Ser.
An unmissable tour through art and time with the most renowned classicist of today, Mary Beard
Classical Art by Mary Beard
36.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Oxford History of Art
The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome. Generals, rulers, and artists seized, imitated, ...Show more
Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard
27.99 AUD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail drawn from across nearly three centuries' TelegraphWhat was it really like to rule and be ruled ...Show more
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard
65.00 AUD
Category: Popular History
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar ( ...Show more
How Do We Look? - The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard
34.99 AUD
Category: Popular History | Series: Civilisations | Reading Level: very good
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon SchamaThe idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depi ...Show more
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard
31.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Sather Classical Lectures
"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New Yorker "The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."-The Independent What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, fil ...Show more
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
24.99 AUD
Category: Popular History
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 MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence w ...Show more
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
49.99 AUD
Category: Popular History
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security ...Show more
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
27.99 AUD
Category: Popular History | Reading Level: very good
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 the Roman Empire from one of our f ...Show more
The Age of Caesar - Five Roman Lives by Plutarch; James Romm (Editor); Pamela Mensch (Translator); Mary Beard (Foreword by)
27.95 AUD
Category: Classics
"Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of year ...Show more
The Colosseum by Mary Beard; Keith Hopkins
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard wit ...Show more