mary beard

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/16/2021
  

  Mary Beard Keeps History on the Move

  "I spent part of my career lamenting that there weren’t more female authors in the ancient world. Well, you can mourn the lack of those authors forever, but you’re not very likely to find more. But you can engage with how gender is defined."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-22-18
  

  Mary Beard: I refuse shows that feature B-list actors in costume

  Cambridge classicist and TV presenter finds re-enactment scenes "excruciating to watch."

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-4-18
  

  Classicist Mary Beard on Feminism, Online Trolls and What Ancient Rome Can Tell Us About Trump

  An interview with Time Magazine.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  6-20-18
  

  Mary Beard on big thinkers and 'sexist rants’

  She wants to open up academic debates to a wider public, but she says a really important part of the message must be to make people realize that things can be “complicated.”

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  4-17-18
  

  Mary Beard cut from US version of “Civilisations"

  American producers feared "slightly creaky old lady isn't ideal for US TV.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1-30-18
  

  The cult of Mary Beard

  by Charlotte Higgins

  How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12-2-17
  

  Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard (she’s the one wearing sneakers)

  A conversation about tweets, politics, women rights.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8-11-17
  

  Historical myopia is to blame for the attacks on Mary Beard

  by Christopher Kissane

  Conservatives around the world are embracing myths historians need to combat.

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• SOURCE: Independant
  8-7-17
  

  Mary Beard 'aggressively' trolled over ethnic diversity in Roman Britain

  The historian said she received a “torrent of aggressive insults” for days after she said a BBC schools video that depicted a high-ranking solider and a father of a Roman Britain family as being black to be “pretty accurate.”

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• SOURCE: Bristol Post
  12-6-16
  

  Bristol Brexit-backer Arron Banks ridiculed for arguing Roman history with Professor Mary Beard

  "Sorry but you may have strong views but you guys don't know Roman history."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-16-16
  

  Mary Beard hailed in the NYT for her campaign against Internet trolling

  The acclaimed Cambridge classicist takes on everything from Internet stalkers to women’s rights.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-6-16
  

  Mary Beard, herself a bestselling author, wonders why more women historians aren't

  by Mary Beard

  Only four female writers appeared in the list of top 50 bestselling history titles in the UK last year.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12-1-15
  

  Mary Beard sets us straight about the myths of ancient Rome

  "I'm a great fan of Roman movies. All the classics are — they might not be accurate, but they speak to me about Rome."

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-10-15
  

  Mary Beard says Europe's migrant crisis looks different from the perspective of the Roman Empire

  Studying the classics can teach us the importance of looking at problems from both sides, she says in an interview with Time Magazine. 

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• SOURCE: Independent
  10-26-15
  

  Professor Mary Beard talks about her new history of ancient Rome book

  So this is what the Romans did for us ....

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-1-14
  

  Classicist Mary Beard celebrated by the New Yorker as “The Troll Slayer”

  by Rebecca Mead

  A Cambridge classicist takes on her sexist detractors.

• SOURCE: Gulf News
  8-4-13
  

  Historian Mary Beard gets Twitter bomb threat

  London: The historian Mary Beard has become the latest woman to receive a tweeted bomb threat, sent on the eve of a boycott by many of Twitter in protest at its slow response to dealing with violent and obscene threats.Although many stayed off the site, the hashtags #Twittersilence and #connectwithrespect were trending, with many comments like David Howell’s: “Time spent enjoying @wmarybeard on twitter is time well spend. Time saved by ignoring idiots is time well saved,” and others pointing out that both women and men have been the victims of vitriolic abuse....

• SOURCE: ITV
  7-29-13
  

  Cambridge prof Mary Beard forces apology from Twitter troll

  Television historian and Cambridge professor Mary Beard has forced a Twitter troll to apologise after publicly naming and shaming him.The male Twitter user had sent an obscene message to Professor Beard that she then retweeted to her 42,000 followers, saying she was "not going to be terrorised."...

• SOURCE: BBC News
  7-29-13
  

  Does Caligula deserve his bad rep?

  Our modern idea of tyranny was born 2,000 years ago. It is with the reign of the Caligula - the third Roman emperor, assassinated in 41 AD, before he had reached the age of 30 - that all the components of mad autocracy come together for the first time.In fact, the ancient Greek word "tyrannos" (from which our term comes) was originally a fairly neutral word for a sole ruler, good or bad.Of course, there had been some very nasty monarchs and despots before Caligula. But, so far as we know, none of his predecessors had ever ticked all the boxes of a fully fledged tyrant, in the modern sense.There was his (Imelda Marcos-style) passion for shoes, his megalomania, sadism and sexual perversion (including incest, it was said, with all three of his sisters), to a decidedly odd relationship with his pets. One of his bright ideas was supposed to have been to make his favourite horse a consul - the chief magistrate of Rome....

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-15-13
  

  Mary Beard stirring up trouble again--and loving it

  JANUARY was a busy month for Mary Beard, a Cambridge academic who is the closest thing, if it exists, to a celebrity classics professor. In just a few weeks, Ms. Beard, who has helped popularize the study of antiquity through television and a lively blog, A Don’s Life, turned 58; finished a draft of her book on Roman laughter; became an officer of the Order of the British Empire; and attended the funeral of a lifelong friend and editor, Peter Carson. But little could have prepared her for the furor she faced after she appeared on a weekly BBC debate show last month and, while discussing immigration, expressed the unpopular view that Britain’s social services would not be overburdened when restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian movement around Europe are lifted next year. Her remarks, made on Jan. 17, unleashed a torrent of vicious, crude and personal online attacks, many targeting her unadorned style and her long, unkempt gray hair. Anonymous attackers also superimposed a picture of her face on a pornographic image. But rather than retire to her fainting couch (it is in her Newnham office, should she need it), or accept what happened as the cost of being a public figure in the Internet age, Ms. Beard decided to fight back....