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Professor Mary Beard
An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain’s favourite classicist.
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A provocative tour of what is happening now in Classics.
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A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary Beard revisits the gender agenda with new material on rape, consent and how the…
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Britain’s best known classicist speaks her mind on the ancient, and modern, worlds.
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)
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A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.
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Mary Beard
We still live in the shadow of Ancient Rome a city at the heart of a vast Empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700…
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Mary Beard’s famous blog ‘A Don’s Life’ has been running on the TLS website for nearly five years. Through it she made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on…
Revised and updated to include the story of the New Acropolis Museum, the controversies that have surrounded it. As so often with the Parthenon, there are all kinds of surprises.
In this brilliant portrait of the ‘life in a Roman town’, Mary Beard uses the relics buried by the eruption on AD79 to bring everyday Roman culture alive.
Professor Keith Hopkins,Professor Mary Beard
Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome’s greatest arena
Die Colloquia Raurica werden alle zwei Jahre vom CollegiumRauricum veranstaltet. Sie finden auf Castelen, dem Landgut der Roemer-Stiftung Dr. Rene Clavel in Augst (Augusta Raurica) bei Basel, statt.Jedes Colloquium…
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