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Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) [1] is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. [2] She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves. Unwanted babies were left outside to die. Of the children that were wanted, half died by the age of ten. Children were put to work at manual labour as soon as they were able, often from the age of five.
Robin Cormack was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, and gained his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London.He wrote his dissertation on Thessaloniki after iconoclasm under the supervision of Hugo Buchthal and Cyril Mango [1] and it was the latter who suggested he should spend time at Dumbarton Oaks.
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Classicist shared her opinion on the royal couple in a recent interview
Mary Beard: Images of the human body throughout ancient art. 1 March 2018 3 "Picturing Paradise" Simon Schama: Depictions of nature and landscapes. 1 March 2018 4 "The Eye of Faith" Mary Beard: Religious art and iconoclasm. 1 March 2018 5 "The Triumph of Art" Simon Schama: Mutual influence of the Islamic Golden Age and European Renaissance. 1 ...
Mary Beard may refer to: Mary Beard (classicist) (born 1955), British classicist, literary critic and journalist; Mary Beard (nursing) (1876–1946), director of the American Red Cross Nursing Service; Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), American historian, author, women's suffrage activist