Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Friday 1 November, 8pm
Augustine Hall, Augustine House
Tickets £14 (Incl. £1.50 booking fee)

The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. Now only the great pyramid remains fully standing, yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonders still enthral us today.

In a thrilling, colourful talk enriched with the latest archaeological discoveries, bestselling historian Bettany Hughes guides us through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time. This is a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder, why we create and why we choose to remember the wonder of others? She explores traces of the Wonders themselves, and the traces they have left in history. With her signature knack for storytelling, Bettany reminds her audiences of the exciting and nourishing notion that humans can make the impossible happen.

Talks will last approximately one hour followed by a Q&A.

Books will be sold at the Talks and online by The Bookshop at Canterbury Christ Church University.

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Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

Hughes, Bettany

£22.50 £25.00

Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for both the Trojan War and enduring enmity between East and West. Helen of Sparta, the focus of a cult which conflated Helen the heroine with a pre-Greek fertility goddess;

Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

Hughes, Bettany

£15.29 £16.99

We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. In The Hemlock Cup, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes gives Socrates the biography he deserves, painstakingly piecing together Socrates' life and using fresh evidence to get closer to the man who asked 'how should we live?' - a question as relevant now as it has ever been.

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

Hughes, Bettany

£13.49 £14.99

The SUNDAY TIMES-bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest cities - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Signed)

Hughes, Bettany

£11.69 £12.99

A revelatory new history of the ancient world told through its seven greatest monuments, by bestselling author and TV historian Bettany Hughes

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Hughes, Bettany

£22.50 £25.00

A revelatory new history of the ancient world told through its seven greatest monuments, by bestselling author and TV historian Bettany Hughes

Venus and Aphrodite

Hughes, Bettany

£11.69 £12.99

A vivid history of the ancient goddess Venus by the bestselling historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes