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,” ...

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker and broadcaster Mary Beard among Booker Prize judges - The literary prize panel will also feature Patricia Lockwood, Raymond Antrobus and Rebecca Liu.

Adapting a lecture into a book is difficult. A good lecture, even one that lasts an hour, should only cycle through a single full idea. The lecturer should introduce some supporting concepts, and ...

Speaking with the studied understatement of a Cambridge professor, classics scholar Mary Beard says of Plato, “if he was here, I’d want to give him a good talking to," noting that his Republic has ...

In her newest book, “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World,” Mary Beard renders a group portrait of the men who led the ancient empire, from their personal quirks to how they governed. Beard, who ...

The way women operate today in the public sphere is not too different from how they did in the literature of Homer or the Middle Ages, says Mary Beard, a leading feminist and expert in ancient history ...

I thought that I would celebrate the BBC repeating the old 1970s series of I, Claudius (with Derek Jacobi and Sian Phillips etc) by re-reading Robert Graves’s original novels — I, Claudius and ...

Bear with me, but how often do you think about Ancient Rome? I’m only asking because this slightly bizarre question has been doing the rounds on social media after a flurry of viral Tik-Tok videos of ...

Beard is a classicist and the author, most recently, of Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Artists have failed to depict a complete set of Roman empresses, but we can ...

In the 1st Century AD, it was a place where Rome's emperor entertained guests in a majestic dining room, as sculptures paid homage to figures from ancient myth. Now, the Nymphaeum of Emperor Claudius ...