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Natalie Haynes took her Cambridge degree in Classics which she also once taught in public schools. She is an award-winning comic, and a regular panellist on the BBC's Newsnight Review, Saturday Review and Front Row. She has been a guest columnist for The Times since 2006. Profile published the hardback in 2010 [9781846683237].Reminds us (or tells us) about people, events and practices in the Greek and Roman world, and at the same time explores their contemporary echoes and parallels. A classic double-whammy, in fact - and delivered with wonderful energy, wit, zeal and expertise. Irresistible
- Andrew Motion,
As wise as Socrates, as witty as Aristophanes, as modern as tomorrow - a classic for our times
- Gyles Brandreth,
An entertaining romp through the politics and society of the ancient Romans and Greeks ... overflowing with lively, pertinent little nuggets
- Claire Allfree, Metro
A passionate authority on the classics
The List
Witty ... for a curious-minded someone who likes to get their teeth into some intelligent non-fiction and 'mmmm' appreciatively
- Bea Hodgkin, Easy Living
A romp through some of the best-known, and some of the most obscure, writers, thoughts and stories of Greece and Rome. Haynes does a good job in debunking myths perpetuated by popular culture ... and also manages to give intelligent overviews of some of the knottier problems that academic scholarship has grappled with ... a passionate defence of Classics
- Jerry Toner, TLS
Haynes debunks plenty of myths about the ancient world and delivers her history lessons in a light-hearted tone
- Christopher Silvester, Daily Express
Brilliant
- Charlotte Higgins, Guardian