It's a Don's Life

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Mary Beard es catedrática de Clásicas en el Newnham College, Cambridge. Es editora en The Times Literary Supplement y autora del blog A Don s Life . Es miembro de la Academia Británica y de la Academia Americana de Artes y Ciencias. Entre sus libros publicados se incluye El triunfo romano (2008); Pompeya (2009), ganador del Premio Wolfson; La herencia viva de los clásicos (2013); SPQR. Una historia de la antigua Roma (2016); Mujeres y poder (2018); La civilización en la mirada (2019) y Doce césares (2021), todos ellos publicados en Crítica. Fue galardonada con el premio Princesa de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales en 2016.