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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.
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
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”. The 68-year-old historian, who has ...
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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.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the United Kingdom by Profile Books and elsewhere by Liveright & Company.
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