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Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA, FRSL (born 1 January 1955) [1] is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. [2]
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Oct 25, 2023 · The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales.
Sep 26, 2023 · Rome historian Mary Beard weighs in on the latest TikTok trend and why Romans would have loved social media.
Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. The author of numerous books and articles (including Pompeii: Life of a Roman Town, which won the Wolfson Prize for History), she is a Fellow of the British Academy and a regular contributor to both radio and television.
Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements.
Mary Beard interview: 'I hadn't realised that there were people like that' The star classicist began by challenging sexism, and is now squaring up to internet trolls
Nov 9, 2015 · November 9, 2015. A victorious commander rides in a chariot during a triumphal procession in ancient Rome. © Stapleton Collection/Corbis. Mary Beard, a professor of classics at the University...
May 16, 2021 · Katy Waldman interviews the British classics scholar Mary Beard about feminist translations, Internet manners, the fluid properties of the canon, and the heated debate about how Greco-Roman ...
May 31, 2021 · But what do we truly hope to reveal with these comparisons to Rome? And what do those hopes say about us? Mary Beard has spent a lifetime examining such questions.
