Mary Beard | S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome

Recorded Nov 10, 2015
Perhaps Britain’s best-known scholar of antiquity, Mary Beard is a University of Cambridge classicist, a fellow of Newnham College, and a Royal Academy of the Arts professor of ancient literature. Some of her seminal works include Rome in the Late Republic, The Parthenon, and The Fires of Vesuvius, a “marvelous excavation” (The Nation) of life in Pompeii before its volcanic destruction. Beard is also the classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, where her column “A Don’s Life” regularly appears. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she has written and presented several BBC historical documentaries. Charting its evolution from insignificant village to sprawling metropolis, S.P.Q.R. offers a comprehensive thousand-year look at history’s greatest empire.

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This woman is a national treasure.

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I love the questions you ask, dear Mary!

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Mary is already a legend

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Mary is such a humanitarian! A more opposite ANTI Brexit Remainer cannot be found. The ideology of Brexit/Trump/Putin/Hitler would be difficult to find and identify. The future of our species and life on Earth depends upon the abolition of borders. This needs urgent discussion but I fear will never occur as the world now enters dystopia through the 10 irreversible and interconnected megathreats that Nouriel Roubini lays out in his book, "Megathreats". Mary's work directly applies to all of the world!

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