Ancient Rome is important, Mary Beard tells us at the start of “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome” (Liveright, $35), her smart and exuberant survey of the first millennium of Roman history. “Rome still ...

Dame Mary Beard's celebrated status as the font of all knowledge on all things ancient Rome is a long way from her roots in a ...

Acclaimed classicist Mary Beard explores what it was really like for the emperors of ancient Rome, taking us behind palace walls to reveal the hidden world of the Roman imperial court and lifestyle.

Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.

Cambridge University classics scholar, outspoken feminist, slayer of Internet trolls — Mary Beard is a genuine heroine in the United Kingdom. Her new book, “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome” begins ...

Beneath the starched togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard uncovers six fascinating stories from the Empire. Meet Turia, a young woman ...

Chatting to classicist Dame Mary Beard makes you incredibly jealous of all the students who had her as their professor at Cambridge University. Thoroughly engaging, her hands flying thoughtfully as ...

BBC Two slates new study of Roman emperors presented by Mary Beard Mary Beard, UK TV presenter and one of the leading international scholars on ancient Rome, is fronting a new ...

World-renowned English classicist Mary Beard delivered a lecture last Friday on Tacitus, a Roman senator and historian, as a part of the annual Directed Studies Colloquium program, a series of guest ...

If there can be any such person as a "favorite classicist," Mary Beard fills that bill. Erudite but accessible, appealing on and off the page, Beard reaches both a readership familiar with ancient ...

ONE of Britain’s best-known historians has called Colchester’s Roman Circus “absolutely amazing” ahead of an inquiry which will decide if part of the site will make way for 203 new homes. Dame Mary ...