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As a television and radio presenter, prolific and best selling author, classicist Dame Mary Beard has acquired celebrity status. The author of more than 20 books including Pompeii, SPQR and Women & Power recently retired from her post as Professor of Classics at Cambridge University. For her latest book Emperor of Rome, Beard leads us through the lives of thirty emperors over nearly three centuries. From Julius Caesar to Alexander Severus, she probes the emperors' powers and just how debauched Roman palaces really were.
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With unparalleled access to Pompeii and featuring cutting-edge modern technology, Mary Beard guides us through this amazing slice of the ancient world.
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The incomparable Mary Beard visited us to help celebrate the last few days of our loan of the Meroë Head of Augustus from the British Museum.As a part of the...
In tracing the roots of misogyny to Athens and Rome, Mary Beard has produced a modern feminist classic
The long read: How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual
She seemed to put her 2014 words behind her as she offered to become the personal Latin tutor to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's three children as she collected her award from Buckingham Palace.
The classicist and author of ‘How Do We Look’ explains what Instagram’s most popular photos reveal about our likes (and dislikes).
In this programme, Mary asks not what the Romans did for us, but what the empire did for Rome. She rides the Via Appia, climbs up to the top seats of the Colosseum, takes a boat to Rome's port Ostia and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio. She also meets some extraordinary Romans: Eurysaces, an eccentric baker, who made a fortune out of the grain trade and built his tomb in the shape of a giant bread oven; Baricha, Zabda and Achiba, three prisoners of war who became Roman citizens; and Pupius Amicus, the purple dye seller making imperial dye from shellfish imported from Tunisia. This is Rome from the bottom up. -- This is shared without profit for educational and historical purposes ---
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ARENA SPECIAL: Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour meets beloved classicist and secret Floyd-head Mary Beard for a tour of Pompeii. LAURA BARTON sees a funny thing happen on the way to the amphitheatre…
Classicist says she wrote reference for one troll because she feared name-and-shame response would harm his job prospects
A couple weeks ago a historian friend of mine recommended Mary Beard's SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome saying "she tells a great story while also showing how hard it is to know anything about
Mary Beard claims the Duchess of Cambridge has been reconstructed as an object of admiration following her marriage into the Royal family.
La académica Mary Beard, la intelectual de moda en Reino Unido, se adentra con el pequeño libro ‘Mujeres y poder’ en uno de los debates más calientes del momento
2012 Meet the Romans. The wonderful Mary Beard, what great shows.
