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Download as PDF; Printable version ... A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the United Kingdom by Profile ...
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.
Beard's analysis cuts through the enormous amount of writing about Roman triumphs to try to ascertain what their reality was as a fixture in Roman life, attempting to demystify them from the large number of what she refers to as 'rituals in ink' that have existed (whereby contemporary writers such as Polybius, Livy or Josephus sought to glorify ...
Dame Mary is launching her new book, Emperor Of Rome: Ruling The Ancient Roman World, on Thursday, which is published by Profile Books and looks at Roman rulers through a non-chronological account.
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard is a 2012 BBC documentary series written and presented by Mary Beard about the ordinary citizens of Ancient Rome, the world's first metropolis. It was repeated in 2020.
Mary Beard distinguishes the history of ancient Rome up until 212 to be different to the era that follows, "effectively a new state masquerading under an old name". [8] Anthony Kaldellis says Rome went from an empire to a world and this decision would later underpin the enforcement of uniform religious belief. [9]
Rome The Cosmopolis (2002), a volume of essays written in honour of Keith Hopkins The Colosseum (2005), co-authored with Mary Beard Sociological Studies in Roman History (2017), a collection of previously published articles, edited by Christopher Kelly
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