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Mary Beard
History & Commentary
Mary Beard is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome, a British Museum trustee, and classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement.
Biography
Mary Beard is an English classicist whose specialism is Ancient Rome. Born on 1 January 1955, she formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, a trustee of the British Museum, and the Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
Beard serves as classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she also writes the regular blog “A Don’s Life”. Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have contributed to her public prominence. In 2014, The New Yorker described her as “learned but accessible”.
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Books by Mary Beard
Women & power
Women & Power consists of two essays connecting the past with the present, tracing misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.