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In the BBC documentary Meet the Romans with Mary Beard, professor Mary Beard translates appāret as "it's obvious!" Beard suggests appāret is signalling a joke, as if to say "get it?!". Thus Beard translates the epitaph as "This is the monument of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, baker, contractor, it's obvious." [12]
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard is a 2012 BBC documentary series written and presented by Mary Beard about the ... One tombstone belonged to a 16-year-old girl ...
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.
And “tombstone tourists” are always encouraging more to consider a cemetery’s the macabre beauty. ... Mary Magdalene Churchyard in East Ham outside of London was a Roman burial site ...
A 2021 study also led by Key confirmed the grave marker to be the oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States. His latest study set out to find the origin of the tombstone.
Dame Mary Beard and Zadie Smith have been shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. Chosen by the company’s booksellers, 14 authors including Smith and Dame Mary were announced to have ...
Mary Baker Eddy grave monument. ... Two centuries later, Charles White wrote about the mantle, the standard, the beard, tooth, and footprint of Muhammad, the last of ...
The Tombstone Epitaph building – The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper was established in this building, constructed in 1880 at 11 S. 5th Street, as a Republican paper under the operation of John P. Clum, Thomas Sorin, and later that year, Charles Reppy. [1] [8] The Bird Cage Theatre – The theater was built in 1881 at 535 E. Allen Street. It was ...