Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

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Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE , FSA , FBA , FRSL (born 1 January 1955) [1] is an English scholar of Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of Classics at the University of Cambridge. [2] She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.

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Professor Mary Beard talks about her new history of ancient Rome book". The Independent. 23 October 2015 . Retrieved 7 December 2021.But the trouble this got her into with her bien pensant colleagues was as nothing to the reaction she got from her post-9/11 statement in the London Review of Books that, 'however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had it coming. That is, of course, what many people openly or privately think'. Again uproar, hate mail and obloquy. But Beard simply dusted herself down and set about replying to her postbag. After you’ve done it for 40 years, it’s not that you think “Phew, thank God I’m out” – I had a great time, it was marvellous, and I feel so privileged that I spent a career doing what I was really interested in. But it’s time to go – I’m now 68 and I’ve got other things I want to do. The next stop’s the care home, so please, let me have another bite at some other cherries before that! Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern ( Princeton University Press, 2021) ISBN 978-0691222363 In 2019, Beard appeared in an episode of The Grand Tour, having dinner with host James May, in his effort to get his car photographed by paparazzi. [52]

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Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town. London, UK: Profile. 2008. ISBN 978-1-86197-516-4. (U.S. title: The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, Harvard University Press) Bley Griffiths, Eleanor (2 October 2018). "Classicist Mary Beard makes unlikely cameo in The Grand Tour series three". Radio Times . Retrieved 1 August 2021.The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail Greece in 'preliminary' talks with British Museum about Parthenon marbles". The Guardian. 3 December 2022 . Retrieved 4 December 2022– via www.theguardian.com. List of Laureates: Mary Beard". Princess of Asturias Awards. Fundación Princesa de Asturias . Retrieved 29 January 2017. Did it feel like a timely moment to examine the nature of one-man rule, with the rise in recent years of strongman governments?