AP reports that Cambridge University classics professor Mary Beard had been pondering the influence of the ancient world on modern political and public life when she came across mugs and T-shirts bearing an image from Greek mythology: the hero Perseus holding the bloody head of the snake-haired monster Medusa. In this version, Perseus had Donald Trump’s face and the monster bore Clinton’s.She was shocked both by the brutality of the image and “the domesticity of it. … The idea that you’d be sitting at your breakfast table and you’d have a mug with Hillary Clinton being beheaded on it.”Beard asks how that ancient image ended up in a modern political campaign in “Women and Power ,” a short but punchy book published Tuesday in the United States by Liveright.The book focuses on the way images and ideas from ancient Greece and Rome have burrowed the way into the Western collective consciousness — and how many of them are about keeping women in their place.“When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice,” Beard notes.On the page, she is crisp and authoritative. In person, she is friendly and forthright. But she says she “became furious” while working on “Women and Power.”Read full story here.RELATED TOPICS: Greece, Greek tourism news, Tourism in Greece, Greek islands, Hotels in Greece, Travel to Greece, Greek destinations , Greek travel market, Greek tourism statistics, Greek tourism reportPhoto Source: Wikimedia Commons Copyright: Tristan Ferne License: CC-BY-SASource: thenationalherald.com