Mary Beard

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Books by Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome on The Odyssey: “brought the renowned Odysseus and echoes of Homer's Odyssey into the story by suggesting that Rome's real founding father was a man called Romus”
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome on Iliad: “the mythical war between Greeks and Trojans that is the backdrop of Homer's Iliad”
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome on The Great Gatsby: “Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was Trimalchio at West Egg”
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome on Julius Caesar: “this is the festival that the opening scene of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar re-creates”
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome on Coriolanus: “Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, by contrast, who inspired Shakespeare's Coriolanus”
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome on Aesop's Fables: “still gives his name to many modern collections of them (Aesop's Fables)”