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Mary Beard on Why the Classics Are Fun and How They Still Matter

Cambridge professor Mary Beard brings her bold, modern understanding of Greece and Rome to her new book, Confronting the Classics. Find out how Romans cleaned their teeth, how the Greeks treated their slaves (and then became slaves themselves), what women could and couldn’t do in Athens and why, thousands of years later, we still refer to Sophocles, Virgil, Cicero and Sappho.











When: Sun., Sep. 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $29
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Cambridge professor Mary Beard brings her bold, modern understanding of Greece and Rome to her new book, Confronting the Classics. Find out how Romans cleaned their teeth, how the Greeks treated their slaves (and then became slaves themselves), what women could and couldn’t do in Athens and why, thousands of years later, we still refer to Sophocles, Virgil, Cicero and Sappho.

Buy tickets/get more info now