Mary Beard
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As folks in the UK know, Mary Beard was recently on the telly doing some Caligula revisionism … see Adrian Murdoch’s roundup of the reviews (Reviews of Mary Beard’s Caligula … he also mentioned a while back that another Caligula doc which he played a role in is now up at Youtube: Caligula: 1400 Days…
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From the New York Review of Books: On February 5, The New York Review celebrated its 50th anniversary at Town Hall in New York City. In this recording from the event, Mary Beard discusses the Review’s coverage of the classics from its first issue through to the present day, and the “inextricable embeddedness of the…
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Nice little video on the BBC: Prof Mary Beard’s ‘Roman view’ of new year … and Dr Beard, OBE reflects on the production: An alternative “Thought for the Day”.
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T’other day we had a couple of postings mentioning the final hours of Pompeii, both of which used the dreaded “lava” word in their various descriptions (which commenter Walter Muzzy pointed out: Blogosphere ~ Top 5 Representations of Pompeii (from Pop Classics) and Reconstructing the classics: from Pompeii to Athens. (Mary Beard)). It apparently also…
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In case you’re wondering what Mary Beard has been up to lately …. from the Independent: The much-loved classicist Mary Beard continues to conquer the airwaves, this time as an advisor on Plebs, a new sitcom set in Ancient Rome. “She’s given us a few pointers,” says Tom Basden, co-writer of the show, with Sam…
rogue classicism 