Talking Classics : The Shock of the OldAuthor: Professor Mary Beard Ancient Greece Published on 16 April 2026 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Hardback 208 pages, integrated photographs illustrations 143 x 224 x 27 324g FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EMPEROR OF ROME AND SPQR'The rock star scholar of Ancient Rome' FINANCIAL TIMES 'The reigning Queen of Classics' SPECTATORWhat's exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at

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he changes his ways and is ‘lost’ to the young devil

even to the edge of the earth

Frances Hodgkins and Evelyn Dunbar

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