Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching – and much else besides. In this second collection following on from the success of It’s a Don’s Life, Beard ponders whether Gaddafi’s home is Roman or not, we share her ‘terror of humiliation’ as she enters ‘hairdresser country’ and follow her dilemma as she wanders through the quandary of illegible handwriting on examination papers and ‘longing for the next dyslexic’ – on whose paper the answers are typed, not handwritten.
Praise for It’s a Don’s Life
‘Delightful… it has the virtues of brevity, eclecticism and learning worn lightly… if they’d had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire’ Daily Mail
Circa l’autore
Mary Beard is one of the most original and best-known classicists working today. She is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include the Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008) and the best-selling SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (2015). Her popular TLS blog has been collected in the books It’s a Don’s Life and All in a Don’s Day. Her latest book is Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017).
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