On this episode of “The Archive Project,” we feature renowned author, Mary Beard. Probably the most famous classicist in the world, Mary Beard is best known for her international bestsellers “SPQR,” ...

The classicist on how a British Museum visit sparked her love of history and why we shouldn’t be too reverent about ancient ...

Mary Beard is reclining at such a steep angle that her toes hang several feet above her head. Typing leisurely on her laptop, the Cambridge University historian is polishing off a paragraph of her ...

It’s fun – I like it,” says Dame Mary Beard of Taylor Swift’s “Cassandra”. The world’s most famous classicist may not be a Swiftie, but she is delighted that one of today’s biggest pop stars has named ...

In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard, “the world’s most famous classicist” (The Guardian), told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, in Emperor of Rome, she shines a spotlight on ...

In this four-part series classicist and historian, Professor Mary Beard draws on her immense scholarship, unique viewpoints and myth-busting approach to Roman history, to give her definitive take on ...

Offering up 30 years of pointed insights and inquisitions, Cambridge classics professor Beard (The Fires of Vesuvius) returns with a collection of primarily reprinted reviews of her classicist peers’ ...

Mary Beard, a classicist who specializes in ancient Rome, has signed on to deliver a keynote during the TV Real Festival, taking place June 18 to 20. You can sign up for your free registration here. A ...

The latest episode from the World Screen podcast is now available: Mary Beard. In this installment from the TV Real Festival, the classicist who specializes in ancient Rome discusses her latest ...

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Dame Mary Beard said train staff did nothing to “help” her when she was raped while travelling Italy as a graduate student. The renowned classicist said that she went travelling after leaving the ...