![]() She wishes to confront discussions on the future of Classics by discussing scholarly appropriations of the past. Beard suggests that, for better or worse, the accumulation of the corpus continues to redefine itself for subsequent generations. ![]() The essays consistently engage problems of transmission and evaluation and aim to explore “how we know what we think we know” rather than staking any argumentative claim (15). There are five sections, ranging from ancient Greece through Rome, in which Beard engages with a number of important secondary works. Mary Beard’s Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations is a collection of reviews that have been adapted and updated for publication under one title with the aim of showing how the discipline has evolved and still influences Western culture. ![]()
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