How Long to Read Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

By Mary Beard

How Long Does it Take to Read Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Mary Beard

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is “the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work” (Observer). Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people—the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if...

How long is Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations?

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations by Mary Beard is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations aloud.

What Reading Level is Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations?

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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