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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.
[1] [2] [3] Historians Barbara Turoff, Ann Lane, and Nancy Cott, in their assessment of Mary Beard's works, and Ellen Nore, in her research on Charles Beard, have concluded that the Beards' collaboration was a full partnership, as the couple confirmed, but the Beards did not fully describe their individual contributions to their published works ...
Classicist and author Mary Beard has said a lot of men prefer to think about the Roman Empire because the time period is a “safe space for being macho”. ... “One of the funniest stories of ...
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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
As a prefect of the Praetorian Guards during Caracalla’s reign, “he was a leading lawyer in Rome,” says Mary Beard, classicist and author of Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World ...