Early in the book, she acts like a tour guide, bringing us to one of her regular haunts in Pompeii, the bar of Salvius.

Mary Beard is, quite simply, our most recognisable and authoritative voice on the ancient world. A celebrated classicist, ...

When Mary Beard’s broadcasting career took off in her mid-50s, she became one of Great Britain’s best-known and most beloved academics thanks to her candor, knowledge about the ancient world and ...

Mary Beard will present Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old, as part of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Spring Author Events Series. This one-time event will invite discussions centered around ...

When I heard Mary Beard was coming to do an event in York, in our very own Central Hall, I knew immediately I had to find some willing friends to drag with me and listen to her speak. If you don’t ...

A couple of bottles of wine later, he gave it to her straight. “He just said it was very boring,” Beard recalls. She was crushed. But “he was ­absolutely right. I was aping a certain style of academic ...