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One of the world's leading historians offers a revolutionary head to of the Ancient World, dusting off the classics for the twenty-first century. Mary Beard, sketching on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman record, provides a breathtaking portrait of the classical world, a book in which we come across not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people - the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How do they live? Where do each goes if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or, perhaps just as important, how do they clean their pearly whites? Effortlessly merging the epic with the quotidian, Beard pushes us along the way to reexamine so lots of the assumptions we organised as gospel - not the least of them the perception that the Emperor Caligula was bonkers or Nero a monster. With capacious wit and verve, Beard shows that, far from being carved in marble, the classical world continues to be very much alive.
