Mary Beard is an utterly fascinating person. Obviously knows and loves her subject. Can listen to her for hours.
@res_gestae4 жыл бұрын
Mary Beard is a true inspiration!!
@joe9092410767 Жыл бұрын
She's fantastic
@forrussia74344 жыл бұрын
Just love this woman - inspires generations to love roman history -thank you mary beard for your knowledge! !! Dont ever let those of much lower intellect upset you-thier comments sày more àbout them than they do àbout you!
@leonardniamh4 жыл бұрын
She's bloody marvellous
@dizzydaydream96474 жыл бұрын
I have said it many times... Mary Beard is a true inspiration. I love listening to her, I love watching her, she is mesmerising in her approach to classic history. Ignore the negative comments from the “Erks” in society..... they are just jealous of your success 💕
@fwcolb4 жыл бұрын
We should all be pleased Mary got a degree. She is brilliant. Just listened to a debate between Mary and Boris Johnson re whether Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome contributed more to modern life. Mary argued for Rome and won. Brilliant debate. She deserved to win, though more than half of the voters in the audience expected Boris to win. Both Boris and Mary were great, but Mary beat Boris. What impressed me was how friendly they were and how much each enjoyed the barbs cast by the other.
@lokiwun4 жыл бұрын
Mary declined to have a young chap punished, who had behaved very badly to her on line; because she didnt want to ruin his career. I always enjoyed her programmes anyway. She went even higher in my estimation. That is class.
@ernestintownandjackintheco10242 жыл бұрын
“It's the mark of a great spirit to regard wrongs as beneath contempt: that the offender appear unworthy of having vengeance exacted from him is the most insulting sort of vengeance.” -Seneca
@lokiwun2 жыл бұрын
@@ernestintownandjackintheco1024 Or (Insert name of whoever pissed you off. ) Pray you never need anything that matters to you from me!
@tempiodelgusto694 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful woman !
@ajaykustomer66394 жыл бұрын
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@USA50_ Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the episode. Huge fan of Mary Beard's 🇺🇲💪🇬🇧❤️
@proudfootz4 жыл бұрын
A pleasure to listen to this conversation.
@AvivaHadas4 жыл бұрын
Mary Beard is my favorite person.
@russellbray45945 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the conversation. Mary is good value.
@sandymay22124 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. I love Dame Mary Beard 🙏🤩
@claudia.k.g.12714 жыл бұрын
"roman imperial power formed, what we think is christianity" - Thank you for this.
@mandycasserley10624 жыл бұрын
I’d love to have dinner with her and just listen 👂
@benedictash13583 жыл бұрын
Love this. Incredible conversation
@jessd7281 Жыл бұрын
What I would give to have a conversation with Mary. She is such a role model for me. ❤
@gratefulliving87225 жыл бұрын
Great interview!
@Transportia4 жыл бұрын
Delightful conversation covering some of the problems of how we read history (and how it reads us) along with perhaps the most scathing indictment of Cicero as someone who would have been very good at Twitter. Thanks for sharing this.
@SamDiMento2 ай бұрын
57:45 LOL. She is an inspirational person and I really admire her.
@roberthindla2474 жыл бұрын
Best part of the convo? "St. Paul? Beam Me Up Scotty!"
@lastdays91634 жыл бұрын
" With a bit of Life of Brian thrown in" Brilliant! This was an enjoyable meeting of minds.
@shonagraham27524 жыл бұрын
For who? Little Englanders that can only portray Celts as inward looking?
@SarahSmith-nr2wj4 жыл бұрын
Mary Beard is just 👌
@sharonjanethague71813 жыл бұрын
It was just great. Time flew!
@Rayblondie3 жыл бұрын
The interviewer knows more about christianity than Mary and sees the difference between religion of the early church and the radical Christians that spread Christ's teaching.
@mrcoutts12112 жыл бұрын
I think you should be first among equals in control of Great Britain for life. Appointing an air of you judgement. With historical repeating the philosophical judgement is infinitely more intuitive than corruption as of late. Not enough open judgement of performance in politics. To call GB democracy. Your Great well done 👏
@ronmurp5 жыл бұрын
Mary, "Religions aren't toxic by nature, they're only made toxic by people that choose to use them in that way." People invent religions. Sometimes toxic people invent religions. So, the nature of a religion is toxic, or not, both in its origins, its nature, and in how it is continued, promoted, furthered, by generations, and sects. A common modern pseudo-feminist defence of Islam goes, "It's not Islam, it's toxic masculinity." Well, yes, and no. It's toxic masculinity that started the toxic misogynistic aspects of the religion, and it's that toxic misogynistic dogma that the religion perpetuates into the present so that women in Iran are oppressed by the religion. That toxic masculinity is baked into the religion, and, if anything, it's thanks to many decent Muslims that it's not consistently applied. Decent Muslims have to act in opposition to elements of the perfect word of God in the Quran to avoid doing some pretty horrific stuff, while Humanists have to act in opposition to the Humanist Manifesto to do bad. Religious dogmas are inherently, by nature. toxic, in a fair bit of their content.
@carolinejackson35434 жыл бұрын
The tradition of interpretation of the Quran (and Bible, and Torah, and every other religious text) goes back to the foundation of the religion. Interpretations can be in line with modern ethics or not - they're all interpretations. As is "humanism"
@patharvard4 жыл бұрын
You are not looking at yourself through history. Looking at roman women, modern women are not looking at themselves. When we look back at people of the past, they were shaped by different cultures, customs, beliefs, traditions, ethics, stresses and experiences.
@divert4abit864 жыл бұрын
Just read a book about Agricola. How is it that not more is known about him?
@VoicePassion4 жыл бұрын
thats life which book was that?
@pneron20324 жыл бұрын
Which Agricola?
@elineeugenie52244 жыл бұрын
Mary Beard at 5 years old 🤗
@Looter924 жыл бұрын
"The Russians" talk about a Freudian slip, Moscow is the third Rome
@Rayblondie3 жыл бұрын
More correctly the USSR was the third Rome with the twin Roman virtues of dictatorship and cruelty.
@Pomegranates1114 жыл бұрын
Yasssss bit*h slay me queen
@j0nnyism3 жыл бұрын
Blaming the Roman procurator or the Temple leaders for Christ’s death is a little simplistic. They all wanted rid of him for different reasons.
@NotMyName8883 жыл бұрын
It's very annoying when a host jumps in and makes things unclear. At 17:40, what is Mary trying to say about common sense? If anyone can jump in and let me know, I would appreciate it! I am a native English speaker but I'm lost with understanding this bit. I can't imagine how confused non-natives must be. Thanks in advance!
@ArcherVII3 жыл бұрын
28:46 A Freudian slip?
@reneknaap17455 ай бұрын
I rather think so 😂
@jgalt1554 жыл бұрын
Only if you’re daft enough to use Facebook or twitter.
@CherriesJubilee Жыл бұрын
28:57 Did he say "the Russians?"
@aine71732 жыл бұрын
Is she saying only the romans built roads, other cultures had roads before the romans.
@SarahSmith-nr2wj4 жыл бұрын
Christ was not a Christian! Christianity was what people made up after him.
@lewisacaroll24294 жыл бұрын
No no ne was baptized , I think you need to read the holy book once agaig
@christinewendt36602 жыл бұрын
@@lewisacaroll2429 You must be joking. Whatever exactly Jesus was baptized into by John the Baptist, it certainly wasn’t Christianity.
@lewisacaroll24292 жыл бұрын
@@christinewendt3660 well you might call it differently but it is what then evolved into Christianity. Of course it was
@ronmurp5 жыл бұрын
Not only the communication, but the state support, is what made Christianity grow. Constantine is crucial, not only for legalising Christianity, but for his part in knocking Christian heads together at Nicea to create some semblance of consistency to the fantasy. And why, Giles, the complain of appropriation? I thought a big point of the message of Jesus was to open the religion to the world. It seems only Jews, his own people rejected it. What evidence is there at all about the actual words of Jesus? Did Jesus even know he was creating a religion? There are so many ways of twisting a fantasy story it seems ironic to complain that some imagined enemy messed it up, distorted it, appropriated it.
@christinewendt36602 жыл бұрын
Wow. Talk about punching above your weight class. This guy is an undereducated besotted True Believer in love with the sound of his own voice. He kept interrupting her and, ffs, *touching* her in the manner of a 1950’s TV host. I would have slapped his hand away.
@raggamuffin26825 жыл бұрын
Iknow u were never assalted anbd punched and beat up because compairing it to internet "twitter storm" is abusrd and just WRONG
@floraposteschild41844 жыл бұрын
And how would you know that, Woody? By pounding your head against a tree?
@HagiaSophia19524 жыл бұрын
Is it Mary's 'obsession' with the Classical World which seems to make her think that Christians are unaware that their religion is thoroughly Roman? Has she not heard of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE? This was consciously created in recognition of that fact. From your comments about the lack of any mention of Jesus' TEACHINGS in the Creed of Nicaea, it would appear you have been reading Richard Rohr, Giles! But, what emerges plainly from this discussion is Mary Beard's complete and utter addiction to relativism. She also, plainly, loathes the Church, and shapes her discourse around that. She is a clever acolyte of Richard Dawkins. I hope that you are being polite, Giles, in just letting her get on with it: and that you do possess the intellectual tools to unpick her argument. You might start with the larger 'revelatory picture' (way beyond the Classical World) which encompasses the 'decision' to create, then to have a relationship with the Jews, which culminates in the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth, progressing through his resurrection, to Paul's realisation that the Risen Christ was of import beyond the world of Jewry, to the continuing revelation today! The miracle is in the loving process.
@floraposteschild41844 жыл бұрын
Is this an example of the loving process?
@HagiaSophia19524 жыл бұрын
@@floraposteschild4184 How does 'not stating' this make it more loving? Answers on postcard, please!