It's a Don's Life
Download or Read eBook It's a Don's Life PDF written by Mary Beard and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Mary Beard |
| Publisher | : Profile Books |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-08-06 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781847652461 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1847652468 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis It's a Don's Life by : Mary Beard
Book excerpt: 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.
