It's a Don's Life

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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Published: 03/01/2010
ISBN: 9781846682513
Pages: 277
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 279