Mary Beard
Mary Beard (Winifred Mary Beard) was born on January 1st, 1955 and is currently 70 years old. Mary Beard was born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England. Beard attended Newnham College, Cambridge where she received a MA degree and a PhD degree.
Mary Beard is an English classicist that specializes in Ancient Rome. She has held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge.
From 1979 and 1983, she lectured in the classics at King’s College, London, and in 1984 returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of Newnham College and was the only female lecturer in the classics faculty.
John Sturrock, the classics editor of
The Times Literary Supplement, approached her for a review and he brought her into literary journalism. She took over his role in 1992 at Ferdinand Mount’s request.
Mary was one of the authors invited to contribute articles on the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to the London Review of Books. She opined that many folks, believed the United States had it coming, and world bullies, even though their heart’s in the right place will ultimately pay the price.
She is the classics editor of
The Times Literary Supplement, for which she writes “A Don’s Life”, her regular blog. Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being referred to as Britain’s best known classicist. She was characterized by
The New Yorker in 2014 as being accessible yet learned.
She graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her BA was later promoted to a Masters, as is tradition. She stayed at Cambridge for her Doctor of Philosophy, completing it with a doctoral thesis called “The State Religion in the Late Roman Republic: A Study Based on the Works of Cicero”.
With
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations, Mary (one of the world’s leading historians) provides a revolutionary tour of the Ancient World, dusting the classics off for the 21st century. She draws on 30 years of writing and teaching about Roman and Greek history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book where we encounter not just Hannibal, Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar, but also common people, the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, soldiers, slaves, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they went broke? Or possibly equally important, how did they brush their teeth?
Mary, while effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, forces us along the way to reexamine so many of the assumptions we held as the gospel. She demonstrates with capacious wit and verve that far from being carved in marble, the classical world is still very much alive.
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Mary Beard: F.A.Q
When was Mary Beard Born? How old is Mary Beard?
Mary Beard was born on January 1st, 1955. Mary Beard is currently 70 years old.
Where was Mary Beard Born?
Mary Beard was born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England and is English.
What was the first book Mary Beard wrote?
The first book written by Mary Beard was Rome in the Late Republic, published in 1985.
What was the most recent book Mary Beard wrote?
Her most recently released work was Emperor of Rome on September 28th, 2023.
Will there be any more books by Mary Beard?
Mary Beard does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.
How many books has Mary Beard written?
Mary Beard has written 26 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 1 book in The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Series, 19 books in the Non-Fiction Books, 1 book in the Very Short Introductions Series, 2 books in the Religions of Rome Series, 1 book in the Wonders of the World Series, 1 book in the Revealing Antiquity Series, 1 book in the Sather Classical Lectures Series.