Mary Beard
Born
in Much Wenlock, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1955
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
34 editions — published 2015 — |
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
31 editions — published 2008 — |
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
10 editions — published 2013 — |
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Classics: A Very Short Introduction
by Mary Beard, John Henderson 16 editions — published 1995 — |
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The Parthenon
11 editions — published 2002 — |
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The Roman Triumph
4 editions — published 2007 — |
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Classical Art: From Greece to Rome
by Mary Beard, John Henderson 3 editions — published 2001 — |
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It's a Don's Life
2 editions — published 2009 — |
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Rome in the Late Republic
by Mary Beard, Michael Hewson Crawford 5 editions — published 1985 — |
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Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History
by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price 4 editions — published 1998 — |
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“It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“Caesar quoted in Greek two words from the Athenian comic playwright Menander: literally, in a phrase borrowed from gambling, ‘Let the dice be thrown.’ Despite the usual English translation – ‘The die is cast’, which again appears to hint at the irrevocable step being taken – Caesar’s Greek was much more an expression of uncertainty, a sense that everything now was in the lap of the gods. Let’s throw the dice in the air and see where they will fall! Who knows what will happen next?”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“In extending citizenship to people who had no direct territorial connections with the city of Rome, they broke the link, which most people in the classical world took for granted, between citizenship and a single city. In a systematic way that was then unparalleled, they made it possible not just to become Roman but also to be a citizen of two places at once: one’s home town and Rome.”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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