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Talking Classics - The Shock of the Old RAY M.D. LONG Channel your inner Zen withBy: Mary Beard Published by University of Chicago Press, 2026 05 20 The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she's talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why for better or (sometimes) worse antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four thousand year old piece of bread in a museum, Beard