Mary Beard

Profile: Full name: Mary Beard Area of interest: The Ancient and Modern World Journals/Organisation: The Times Email: mb127@hermes.cam.ac.uk - Mary Beard: Newnham College Personal website: http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/faculty/staff-bios/academic-research-staff/mary_beard Website: Blog: TimesOnline blog: A Don's Life | Comment is free: blog Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: "Mary Beard is a wickedly subversive commentator on both the modern and the ancient world. She is a professor in classics at Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS." Education: 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/role: Professor of Classics Other roles/Main role: Author Other activities: Disclosures: 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 Broadcast media: Meet the Romans with Mary Beard, BBC 2, April 2012 Desert Island Discs, BBC R4, 5th February 2010 Video: 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) Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: 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 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Times: Column name: A Don's Life Remit/Info: The Ancient and Modern World Section: Role: Pen-name: Email: Website: http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: If 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

News & updates: The Saturday interview: Professor Mary Beard. With her new TV series about the lives of ordinary Romans, Professor Mary Beard wants to tackle history differently. The nation's new favourite classicist talks to Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 21st April 2012

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Links: Times Literary Suppliment reviews Wikipedia bio