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It's a Don's Life Book

Covers the author's famous blog, A Don's Life, that ran on the 'TLS' website for over three years.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has 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. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting -- ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will inform, occasionally provoke and cannot fail to entertain.

  • Blackwell

    While many scholars build careers through increasingly elaborate reconstructions of the ancient world, [Mary] Beard consistently stresses the limits of our knowledge, the precariousness of our constructs and the ambiguity or contradiction...

  • BookDepository

    It's a Don's Life : Paperback : Profile Books Ltd : 9781846682513 : 1846682517 : 01 Mar 2010 : Covers the author's famous blog, A Don's Life, that ran on the "TLS"" website for over three years."

  • 1846682517
  • 9781846682513
  • Mary Beard
  • 5 November 2009
  • Profile Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
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