Mary Beard: The Twelve Caesars, Part 1

Mary Beard, Cambridge University. This six-part lecture series examines the continuing engagement throughout history with images of Roman emperors and its impact on Western visual art and culture.
In this first lecture, originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on March 27, 2011, the esteemed classicist and professor Mary Beard introduces the prejudices, conventions, and disagreements that underlie the identification and reception of Roman imperial portraits beginning with Julius Caesar.
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[@ptolemyphilopator]

I would love to meet prof Mary Beard it'd difficult to find anyone who loves Rome and the history of the Empire with as much passion as she has!!! We watch all her videos 📹 at home and are huge fans of her work!! Thank you Professor Mary Beard!!

[@dawnatkinson7704]

She does respond to messages on Twitter - she is the best!

[@ptolemyphilopator]

@@dawnatkinson7704 thanks!!

[@MrUwg]

You will enjoy the serial of Colleen mc cullough about the Roman republic.

[@ptolemyphilopator]

Thanks I'll look that up!!

[@netizencapet]

I grew up in DC and visited the National Gallery, the Freer, and the Sackler, and even the Arts end Industries Building very often. I know exactly where they stationed her. She's a damn legend. It is not inapt that she lectures in Washington, the current, falling Rome.

[@jstanton4561]

Starts at 6:03

[@eutropius2699]

J stanton the real mvp

[@Tapioca674]

Thank you! I couldn’t handle the phony posh American affected accent.

[@victorzapata5327]

Anxiously waiting for her arrival

[@Silvertestrun]

Ty

[@michaelbuzanowski207]

To what do you contribute the motivation of the ceasars self preservation were they born to it and could not get out or was it an ideal that was rome

[@voraciousreader3341]

You one long question would be better understood if it were broken into shorter, more intelligible sentences. And whom are you asking? Who is “you”?? Mary Beard?? I don’t believe you’ll get an answer.

[@sarana77]

❤❤❤

[@opos_cmopos_cm8133]

How the great people, the "patricians" the "emperors", the "kings", they .... not the "kakos" the form they express theirself

[@victorzapata5327]

Mary Beard, I'm all ears, a pleasure to learn from the very ,very 👌 best! La cream de La cream'☆☆☆☆☆, the sky is the limit, I will give her all the 🌟 stars i can reach

[@georgetheodoridis3303]

Disappointed with this lecture actually. It is more about portrait and bust making than the subject. This is the art history relating to the art pertaining to ancient Rome rather than the emperors who ruled it. Having said this Beard is always great to read or listen. I have read most -if not all- of her books with great enthusiasm.

[@xLany]

Note to self: stopped at 31:30

[@michaelbuzanowski207]

We're the Caesars the sacrificial lambs the Christs of the Roman empire the scape goats or actual leaders whom chance decided their fate

[@anthealogan777]

Can’t these ridiculous lunatic comments be deleted please?

[@eutropius2699]

Hahahahaha poor peter kavanaugh

[@jstanton4561]

I would report them, but I think he's making a genuine effort to communicate, but has some disability. I'm not going to report a disablef person's comments because they have difficulty using language.

[@eutropius2699]

@@jstanton4561 j Stanton over here still managing to be the mvp

[@netizencapet]

Mary Beard, great aficionada of Roman graffiti wouldn't delete them, and so shouldn't you, fascitic hater. Ignorance instructs wisdom through its folly.

[@pininfarinarossa8112]

Well, portraits were on coins before Julius Cesar, weren't they?

[@voraciousreader3341]

“IN THE WEST.” One must listen extremely carefully before attempting to trip up such an esteemed intellectual.

[@stconstable]

How did Suetonius know about Caesar's appearance? Past writings and documents and existing statuary lost since his time. That he didn't cite them means absolutely nothing. Ancient Rome was rich with libraries and repositories stuffed with copies of all sorts of testimony and poetry and speeches and more. The suggestion he conjured up detail from thin air is a terrible slur.

[@voraciousreader3341]

Your comfort in questioning an eminent scholar is truly astonishing. I have news for you: _You do not know more than Mary Beard on this subject._

[@peterkavanagh64]

FEAR ,, Without fear your a food

[@peterkavanagh64]

When I know the voices are all male off to war . the trot to gallop and the voice is stck to my shields in fromnt not behind infront the tone and inclination changes to why> Why not

[@peterkavanagh64]

opens the apboratory , and now i will guide thee . hunbger hunger to 12 hunger sand for eternityr it is the space for happiness and hte gate to freedom if the evild fllows through ban it listening with out a movement to heavy lift s and be to its surviavl to gathering and maintinance and building a new if needed . the lymphaitscs is the feet too, so staying put is not a good way as you see , so travelling is to be b. and teh door or next is a tree away frmn the cave . lights are not ok but the sun says east to me maybe some herfe stay i to east and wait fro anew shower anmd prctsie washing with less not more less. hence hunger opens the doors of the wind, and listen to the height of the elemnets of the water therefore the soups and back to apples and beef soups wiht bones soups to free the chest. wait a mons to walk practise walking wfter a long 89 walks to 5 hours a time the head lifts and sight os to see the tress and the mountains not to rush back to explain how toeat moref, and wait with a bib. it will settle. genicide is not the deal that is why nature is in charge , not genicide. open the b=labortatiry and th edoors open now the true lab , please, see the child respond to the free. the lab research is the chains not the cure. as is the monon male god and female god. after a time u see bette but first now open the fear nand the naturte will return

[@peterkavanagh64]

After a time I see a way but that is thee . I see the way for me at this time it is to war, wand oi will bring all who will not hunger to this with me in the seat, wuick light that fire in the sky that needs to be this ground again and i will signal not the human in its w=eye but scent the swiches and , as the say chinm shin,, bottoms up and it isno longer a laugh that is m]now my destinity to see it dead, it fights and struggles its grave, crtianly not deracula or his wife ?? No that foll is fat a food for the dog there there is a cage of hungry dogs opned allow then wthroew . after a wlhiule watching yees this si te reward nota seat of gold.. ,. >>>>>>>>> or stud it is this a real terrible battle and war to deaths end . yellow bricks and old bones . hence you turn off the cpu and begin not retrun tothe devils home and ask for another sin ,? well it is old but ask the porter how to go back where yee came from

[@JB-uv4hm]

Don’t do drugs.

[@jstanton4561]

@@JB-uv4hm ☹️ poor Peter

[@peterkavanagh64]

A womans voice can be uncomfortable, that is npt a reason to not listen. i fear a deaf ear that is held to others to process

[@Insectoid_]

what?

[@eutropius2699]

@@Insectoid_ we have all been wondering

[@jstanton4561]

@@eutropius2699 I think Peter is one of those people who has a disability with language processing. If I may try to interpret, I think what he's trying to say is that some people don't listen to women when they speak, or won't take a woman seriously as a scholar. When they act like that, they are not only erasing her own voice, but all the voices from the past, that she gives new life to, by conveying their perspective to a modern audience.

[@eutropius2699]

@@jstanton4561 yea I see what you’re saying

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

Ce disgracieux oiseau aux poses equivoques n' est pas fait pour attirer de nouveaux affamés de culture muséale. Le prestigieux British Museum n'a-t-il rien d'autre à présenter ?

[@scout3279]

Smart funny and passionate is always attractive! "Beauty fades, dumb is forever" oui?

[@tiberivsgracchvs2393]

Lol

[@voraciousreader3341]

@Ezzo von Achaim - Go back to your porn, sweetie darling….you’re WAY out of your depth here.

[@clancyborastero9012]

You’re an idiot….