Mary Beard



Profile:
Full name: Mary Beard

Area of interest: The Ancient and Modern World

Journals: The Times

Email: [mailto:mb127@hermes.cam.ac.uk mb127@hermes.cam.ac.uk] - Mary Beard: Newnham College

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Blog: TimesOnline blog: A Don's Life | Comment is free: blog

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Career: Teaches Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College: she has been described as "a wickedly subversive commentator on both the modern and the ancient world"

Current position: Professor of Classics

Other posts & involvements: Author

Viewpoints/Insight:
 * Interview by Paul Laity: The dangerous don, The Guardian, 10th November, 2007


 * Interviews by Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG: (pt.1) The Wonders of the World; (pt.2) The Elephants of Rome, September 2007

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Controversy/Criticism: Liz Lightfoot: Don angers students with her nostalgia for 'pawing' pedagogues The Daily Telegraph, 17th August 2006; Clive Davis: Mythological Spectator, 27th September 2007 (refers to Mary Beard's comments following the 911 attack in New York)

Books:
 * Rome in the Late Republic - with Michael Crawford (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985) OCLC 11676607
 * Classics: A Very Short Introduction - with John Henderson (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) OCLC 3250
 * Religions of Rome - with John North and Simon Price (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) OCLC 36915678
 * The Invention of Jane Harrison (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000) OCLC 43245889
 * Classical Art from Greece to Rome - with John Henderson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) OCLC 45829408
 * The Parthenon (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003) OCLC 51505620
 * The Colosseum - with Keith Hopkins (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005) OCLC 58594999

Latest work: The Roman Triumph (Belknap Press: October 15, 2007) ISBN 0674026136

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Blog name: A Don's Life

Column remit: The Ancient and Modern World

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Comment:

 * the emperor has no clothes, history will expose him'' - The Roman ruler Tiberius was as notorious for his sexual frolics as he was keen to keep them quiet. Remind you of anyone? - 3rd June 2009



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