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Mary Beard: Confronting the Classics [2014] paperback Condition:Very Good Looking at studies and examplesMary 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