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Sunday, March 11, 2018

Mary Beard's Civilisations is boring and bonkers, says GARRY BUSHELL

But this would have been art vandalism, not rape...you can't rape stone. More puzzling was Mary's claim that an Olmec statue called The Wrestler was as good as anything the GREEKS produced. Beard thinks seeing GREEK art as “a beacon of superior Western civilisation” distorts our view of other cultures.


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