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Mary Beard
Author, “SPQR”; Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge
Winifred Mary Beard, OBE, FBA, FSA is an English Classical scholar. She is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts professor of ancient literature. She is also the classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog, "A Don's Life," which appears in The Times as a regular column. Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist."
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"One of the ways you can see the Roman Empire is it's the worldwide web of its day."
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Throw away your history books — here’s what life in ancient Rome was really like, according to Cambridge scholar Mary Beard.
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Cambridge professor and author Mary Beard explores the mythical sex stories of the Roman Empire, before she lays down the realities.
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Ancient Rome was a very different world from ours, so it does have any lessons to teach us? While we shouldn't model our behavior on any ancient society, Rome's treatment of immigrants is illustrative.
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Mary Beard, one of the world's most respected classical scholars, is the author of a brand-new history of the Roman Empire.