It's a Don's Life
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It's a Don's Life

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It's a Don's Life

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781846682513
eBook ISBN
9781847652461

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Illustration Credits
  6. Introduction
  7. Pink or purple?
  8. Sex in the sculpture garden
  9. Big Brother at uni
  10. Tampons for Africa
  11. Mixed messages?
  12. Is Latin too hard?
  13. Does Latin ‘train the brain’?
  14. Ask a silly question
  15. What are academics for?
  16. They make a desert and call it peace
  17. The knife and fork test?
  18. Keeping sex out of scholarship
  19. In the harem
  20. In the news in Pompeii
  21. Fiddling while Rome burned
  22. What makes a good review?
  23. Freshers’ week
  24. Veils, turbans and ‘rivers of blood’
  25. Where is your spleen?
  26. A captive audience
  27. What did the Romans wear under their togas?
  28. The sign of the cross
  29. The tragedy of George Bush
  30. Pissing on the pyramids
  31. Sex on the Beach
  32. Exams are getting harder – shock
  33. Racism in Greece and Rome
  34. Paganism without the blood
  35. Where’s the loo?
  36. Do-it-yourself cremation
  37. David Beckham’s new tattoo – a classicist writes
  38. Don’t blame Hadrian for Bush’s wall
  39. Seminar power and willy-waving
  40. Pompeii in Mexico
  41. Is David Cameron a Narcissus (... Or, was John Prescott right?)
  42. ‘La Clemenza di Tito’: Mozart, the Colosseum and Yugoslavia?
  43. Index linked?
  44. How to order a coffee in American
  45. What is Big Brother doing in Durham cathedral?
  46. Are A levels (still) dumbing down?
  47. Esperanto, Welsh and the language wars
  48. Olympia (almost) burns ... but Paris survives
  49. 10 things you thought you knew about the Romans ... but didn’t
  50. Greek treasures and global treasures
  51. Upstairs at the brothel
  52. How many academics does it take to buy a coffee maker?
  53. The sex secrets of Kennedy’s Latin Primer
  54. Orientalism ... or, what’s in a name?
  55. Tips for new students – from an old don
  56. How am I doing on Amazon?
  57. A life in the day of a don
  58. My five favourite Roman classics ... that we have lost
  59. Why didn’t the Athenians give the women the vote?
  60. Want a motto? Do it in Latin.
  61. Labouring classicists – and New Year resolutions
  62. The rape of Britannia
  63. What made the Romans laugh?
  64. Did St Valentine Exist?
  65. A day in Guantanamo
  66. Prince Harry: the Roman solution
  67. Dead men’s books
  68. Do physicists need French?
  69. Let’s Get Rid of the Fascist Olympic Torch
  70. Feminism now: should boys play harps?
  71. Keep Lesbos for the Lesbians
  72. The face of Julius Caesar? Come off it!
  73. Are exams fair?
  74. The Amy Winehouse exam
  75. Why ruins are disappointing
  76. Why research is fun
  77. Heard the one about the Roman and the barber?
  78. A good old-fashioned 2.1 is better than a Higher Education Achievement Record
  79. It’s bonkers to ban Latin
  80. Barack Obama – and the first ‘African-Roman’ emperor of Rome
  81. Oxbridge interviews: real advice from a real don
  82. What’s in a don’s inbox?
  83. RAE madness
  84. Underwater Romans
  85. It’s a don’s life – the book
  86. Other eBooks available from Mary Beard
  87. Afterword
  88. Acknowledgements