Mary Beard is Britain’s pre-eminent classicist as an author ... It has the most incredibly dull title: The State Religion in ...

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was trying ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Dame Mary Beard has said the University of Cambridge is smarter without “thicko” rugby players. The renowned classicist said ...

Inviting us to share her passionate interest in Roman history, she was almost obsessively determined to ensure that we too can understand why the subject is so compelling and important. The first ...

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,” ...

COLCHESTER'S MP urged the government to help protect and promote the town's Roman legacy. Labour MP Pam Cox led a debate in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...