What am I in for?
>>25263658I thought it was okay when I read it years ago. Being exposed to her documentary videos on YouTube has made me change my mind however. She is every bit, a dyed-in-the-wool feminist faggot who hates men and everything she says just oozes with feminist bias which is pretty hilarious with someone who majors in ancient Rome.
>>25263665>She is every bit, a dyed-in-the-wool feminist faggot who hates men and everything she says just oozes with feminist bias which is pretty hilarious with someone who majors in ancient Rome.I don't understand why liberals like her even want to gatekeep Rome from chuds. Rome stood for everything she hates: imperialism, patriarchy, xenophobia, warmongering, slavery.
>>25263658>pretty hilarious with someone who majors in ancient RomeIt is funny, but not surprising. These people are so filled with spite that they do this to be the vanguard of revisionism.>actually rome was matriarchal>actually britain was founded by a black aristocracy>i'm an academic, you need to listen to me>the academics before me were all bigoted white men which is why you shouldn't listen to them
>>25263658It’s ok. Readable, but nothing groundbreaking. She is mostly known because she is a woman who early on got into a mostly male field at the time and gets pushed to the front by all the right people , the BBC, New York Times, etc.She is better just to read and not delve too deeply into her other opinions.
>>25263658a serviceable, popular introduction to the history of ancient rome. it knows better than to say things like>war was heckin chad!>slavery was heckin chad!>rape was heckin chad!so /lit/ will tell you it's nonsense. this is because /lit/ thinks of ancient rome as the source of le heckin basedness, not because they think of or study ancient rome in any grounded, serious sense. (see >>25263671, where beard makes the anodyne, commonplace observation that roman statues were gaudily painted, and that it's both funny and retarded that roman statue avi twitter accounts think the statues were stark, severe reminders of le heckin basedness, and as a result a trad roman larper (lmfao) has a little meltdown)
>>25263665>i read it and thought it was fine until an eclelb told me to think differently to own the libs what the fuck happened to this board?
>>25263671God she reminds me of jk rowling
>>25263671Shes the emperor, I didnt vote for her
Some e grifter profiting off other peoples works
>>25264808>ecelebAre you fucking retarded? They were her OWN lectures. Where she talks about ancient Rome like a fucking feminist with a massive chip on her shoulder.It had nothing to do with "ecelebs" you fucking moron. Your reading comprehension is fucking dogshit.
Seems like a smart lady
The next tolkien
>>25264358>beard makes the anodyne, commonplace observation that roman statues were gaudily paintedFirst of all we don't know if they were painted in this ugly garish way because the reconstructions are likely way offhttps://worksinprogress.co/issue/were-classical-statues-painted-horribly/Second, these statues still have pale skin, so this is a dumb way to own the chuds.Finally, yes the Roman Empire was built on Murder, Rape and Plunder. The founding myth is literally just rape. It was the OG incel uprising so it's funny to see libs defend this civilization because it wasn't Nordicist, as if they don't hate it in any other context.
>>25265004>First of all we don't know if they were painted in this ugly garish way because the reconstructions are likely way offthey were still at minimum painted, wouldn't be surprising if they were painted in some garish way to give people a jolt of color>Second, these statues still have pale skinthis was never in question, the chuds got upset that the statues weren't sleek unadorned marble because they thought it was part of a broader deep academia conspiracy to trannify muh trad west or some equally retarded bullshit >the Roman Empire was built on Murder, Rape and Plunder. The founding myth is literally just rapeyes, chuds get very upset when you say this plainly and say that murder rape and plunder are bad things generally speaking>It was the OG incel uprisingastonishing>the libs actually HATE romeno, the libs say that the roman empire was built on murder, rape, and plunder, which makes the chuds upset, and then they say that those are bad things to do, which makes them very upset. the libs also say that not everyone in rome was a white man with money, which is trivially, obviously true, but for some reason sends the chud into conniptions
>>25265103>they were still at minimum painted, wouldn't be surprising if they were painted in some garish way to give people a jolt of color... damn, this changes everything. Import a billion jeets now.
>>25265103>the chuds got upset that the statues weren't sleek unadorned marble because they thought it was part of a broader deep academia conspiracy to trannify muh trad west or some equally retarded bullshitThis entire recent discourse around colored statues started with spiteful libs like Beard and their weird crusade about how "ackchyually the statues weren't actually white marble" as if that has any relation to what Nordicists really care about (genetics and haplogroups). But libs have zero theory of mind for chuds who live in their head 24/7 so this isn't surprising
>>25263671Little did the fat cunt know most of the twatter statues were larping shitskin jeets from the third world shilling for pennies worth of engagement revenue, and any unironic nordicist movements are 90% southern poverty lawcenter larpers corraling maybe two hundred mentally ill shut-ins in spread out across the rural south. Everyone else just thinks, yeah, white people generally are the best looking and keeps it to themself.
>>25263658I thought it was pretty boring. Lots of better ways to learn about Rome than what is basically a long GCSE textbook.>>25264358I hope you are ready to lose for the rest of your life.
>>25263658I bought this at an airport, sat down, read the first paragraph, puked, realized the rest of the prose was going to be garbage, and put it down. I remember thinking "What an ass backwards first sentence, is the rest of the book this lazy?"
Emperor of Rome>SPQR
boring. I would recommend another one, but I don't know any. I studied Romans in uni and didn't love any of the secondary texts. Read the Aeneid though, that's fun
>>25263658It's really really mid. Seriously, there are a dozen different, better introductions to Roman history. Especially if you get something era specific. The Edinburgh University and Routledge series are really good and give a thorough introduction to a period. The nature of such a broad book will mean it will never be good, it is an introduction, but that's about it.
>>25266788Yes, but what about Women and Power?>At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial. As far back as Homer’s Odyssey, Beard shows, women have been prohibited from leadership roles in civic life, public speech being defined as inherently male. From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship to power―and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template. With personal reflections on her own online experiences with sexism, Beard asks: If women aren’t perceived to be within the structure of power, isn’t it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?
>>25265103I doubt they had access to such vivid colors. Even Tyrian purple is washed out, almost pastel.
>>25265004>First of all we don't know if they were painted in this ugly garish waythey base their reconstructions on paint residue they find on the statues
>>25268267Read the linked article
>>25263658Gibbon is better but for some reason academia decided he's problematic and "outdated" while propping these mid new cronologies.
>>25268375Gibbons is 4,000 pages, you can master latin and greek in half the time it takes to read gibbons
>>25268358interesting. I suppose the residue of paint also doesn't really tell how diluted the paint was originally, at least not reliably.
>ancient statues weren’t white, they were actually White with a capital W. Take that chuds.Chudbros how do we cope?
>>25268530>I suppose the residue of paint also doesn't really tell how diluted the paint was originally, at least not reliably.Pretty much. Here the two “official” reconstructions there are. Notice how one uses blue in some areas while one uses gold and how some figures on the cuirass are painted.
>>25268595They were makeupped thoughbeit, including the Men with a capital M. Genderideologybros, I don't feel so good...
>>25268595>NOOOOO DON'T SHOW ME THAT ANCIENT ROMANS HAD BLONDE HAIR NOOOOOO ANYTHING BUT THAT PLEASE MR. LIBERAL ACADEMIC AAAAHHHHH
>>25268605Here’s another reconstruction by “History in 3D”, probably just using the previous two as a base and “improving” it based of his personal taste.
>>25268620Here’s another reconstruction I found, source Unknown. Definitely the best looking paludamentum, very nice purple. The cuirass looks like shit though (lmao at the green dragon?). The choice in hair and eye colour are a bit controversial. I can understand justifying the hair by saying “subflavum” = blonde, but Augustus from what I’ve read his eyes are described as “glauci” or grey-eyed.
>>25263658It's a decent overview of "general" Roman history I guess. I felt that I didn't really learn anything new, she doesn't dive that deep into anything. The biggest new thing I learned was that the eruption of Vesuvius also kinda preserved/fossilized the shit in Pompeii so archaeologists have been able to analyze the coproliths there to get an idea of the Pompeiian diet.
