If there can be any such person as a "favorite classicist," Mary Beard fills that bill. Erudite but accessible, appealing on and off the page, Beard reaches both a readership familiar with ancient ...

Mary Beard evangelizes for the ancient Romans like no other. A Cambridge classicist, BBC presenter, blogger, and engaging lecturer, Beard is eager to convert a wider audience to a love of antiquity.

How did a tiny village in central Italy rise to become one of the most dominant powers in the world, and one that still, two thousand years later, is influencing our culture, politics and worldview?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last year I read SPQR, Mary Beard’s readable and not-too-long history of the Roman ...

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“Et tu, Brute?” asks Julius Caesar in the titular play by Shakespeare. “Are you not entertained!?” roars Russell Crowe’s character to the crowd after slaying his opponent in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator.

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,” ...

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Do you have fond memories of your favorite history professor, who could engagingly convey lots of information, filling in along the way the process of how it came to be known? Maybe he or she also ...