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Clásicos Sin Filtros: El Impacto del Mundo Antiguo / Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
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ISBN13: 9786076393055
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.20
Language: Spanish
Mary Beard nos demuestra que los clásicos siguen importando.
Qué tiene de emocionante un trozo de pan de hace 4.000 años? O unas vasijas de pintura abandonadas durante la erupción de Pompeya? Por qué deberÃamos interesarnos por un pasado tan remoto? Qué puede decirnos hoy?
La vida, el arte y la literatura de la antigua Grecia y Roma no son un santuario intocable ni un club reservado a una minorÃa ilustrada. Tampoco son una colección de estatuas inmaculadas destinadas a la veneración. Son un territorio incómodo y fascinante a la vez. Nos llevan a cuestionar nuestras certezas, a enfrentarnos a las contradicciones del mundo antiguo y a mirar con otros ojos el presente.
En Clásicos sin filtros, Mary Beard desmonta los tópicos sobre la Antigüedad y nos invita a contemplarla sin solemnidad. Recorre las conexiones sorprendentes e inquietantes entre Grecia y Roma y nuestro tiempo: desde revolucionarios hasta dictadores, de los debates sobre democracia a la cultura pop, de Bob Dylan a Beyoncé. Los clásicos no son reliquias muertas, sino un legado en disputa que sigue moldeando nuestra imaginación polÃtica y cultural.
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Mary Beard shows us why the classics still matter.
What is so exciting about a 4,000-year-old piece of bread? Or paint pots abandoned during the eruption of Pompeii? Why should we care about such a distant past? What can it tell us today?
The life, art, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome are not an untouchable sanctuary or a club reserved for an enlightened minority. Nor are they a collection of pristine statues meant to be worshipped. They are an uncomfortable yet fascinating territory. They invite us to question our certainties, confront the contradictions of the ancient world, and view the present through a different lens.
In Clásicos sin filtros, Mary Beard dismantles common myths about Antiquity and invites us to see it without solemnity. She explores the surprising and unsettling connections between Greece and Rome and our own time: from revolutionaries to dictators, from debates about democracy to pop culture, from Bob Dylan to Beyoncé. The classics are not dead relics, but a contested legacy that continues to shape our political and cultural imagination.
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