The Ancient Guide To Modern Life Natalie Haynes by Natalie Haynes 9781847652935, 184765293X instant download after payment.

In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship & wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life not only reveals the origins of our culture in areas including philosophy, politics, language, & art, it also draws illuminating connections between antiquity & our present time, to demonstrate that the Greeks & Romans were not so different from ourselves: is Bart Simpson the successor to Aristophanes? Do the Beckhams have parallel lives with The Satiricon's Trimalchio? Along the way Haynes debunks myths (gladiators didn't salute the emperor before their deaths, & the last words of Julius Caesar weren't "et tu, brute?") from Athens to Zeno's paradox, this irresistible guide shows how the history & wisdom of the ancient world can inform & enrich our lives today.   

Natalie Haynes is a best selling author, an award-winning comedian, a journalist, & a broadcaster. She has been a judge for both the Man Booker Prize & the Orange Prize. Natalie is a regular panelist on Radio 4's Saturday Review & the long-running arts show, Front Row. She is a guest columnist for The Independent & The Guardian.   

Natalie appears regularly on BBC Television's Newsnight Review. she writes for the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday, The New Humanist, & the Times. Ms. Haynes earned her degree in classics at Cambridge.

Her debut novel, The Furies was called "a gripping, can't-stop-turning-pages thriller" by Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe. Her other books include A Thousand Ships & The Children of Jocasta.