Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations Tots_Gift_Guide always on the edge of

always on the edge of self-destruction

How does an ordinary person find the courage to leave a cult

or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad

in intense heat and

She must make decisions that will assure the future of the land and her family—or watch them both be split apart

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations Tots_Gift_Guide always on the edge ofA National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is "the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work" (Observer). Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people the millions