When Mary Beard’s broadcasting career took off in her mid-50s, she became one of Great Britain’s best-known and most beloved academics thanks to her candor, knowledge about the ancient world and ...

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 ...

Chatting to classicist Dame Mary Beard makes you incredibly jealous of all the students who had her as their professor at Cambridge University. Thoroughly engaging, her hands flying thoughtfully as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So it’s good news for us all that she’s launching a new podcast, Instant Classics, alongside The Guardian’s culture writer Charlotte Higgins. "'Why haven’t we done it before?’ Is the question I’m ...

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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 ...