Mary Beard (classicist)

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Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) has a Chair of Classics at University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College. She is Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog, A Don's Life.

Her books include Religions of Rome (with John North and Simon Price, 1998), Classics: A Very Short Introduction (with John Henderson, 2000), Rome in the Late Republic (with Michael Crawford, 2000), The Invention of Jane Harrison (2000), Classical Art from Greece to Rome (with John Henderson, 2001), The Parthenon (2003), The Colosseum (with Keith Hopkins, 2005), The Roman Triumph (2007) and Pompeii (2008).

[edit] External links

• Mary Beard's webpage at Newnham College
• Mary Beard's blog at The TLS