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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Mary Beard: Roman Triumph
It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; i …
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Beard Mary Beard: Fires of Vesuvius
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent histo …
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Adelene Buckland & Sadiah Qureshi: Time Travelers
The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of their preoccupa …
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Mary Beard: SPQR
Mary Beard’s new book Emperor of Rome is available now Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and sto …
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Beard Mary Beard: Parthenon
"Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history."-Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic"In her brief but compendious volume [Beard] says that …
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Mary Beard: Invention of Jane Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academi …
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Mary Beard & Keith Hopkins: Colosseum
Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome’s most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its re …
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Mary Beard: Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
‘The reigning Queen of Classics’ Spectator ‘Mary Beard is the best in the business’ Dan Snow ‘Excellent’ Guardian ‘Enthralling’ Sunday Times Britain’s most famous classicist asks: what are civilisati …
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