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On this episode of “The Archive Project,” we feature renowned author, Mary Beard. Probably the most famous classicist in the world, Mary Beard is best known for her international bestsellers “SPQR,” ...

When Mary Beard’s broadcasting career took off in her mid-50s, she became one of Great Britain’s best-known and most beloved academics thanks to her candor, knowledge about the ancient world and ...

Adapting a lecture into a book is difficult. A good lecture, even one that lasts an hour, should only cycle through a single full idea. The lecturer should introduce some supporting concepts, and ...

As she peels back the layers of Roman propaganda and mythmaking, Mary takes us closer to the real Roman emperors, warts and all We tend to fantasize about the absolute power of the Roman emperor. We ...

In the 1st Century AD, it was a place where Rome's emperor entertained guests in a majestic dining room, as sculptures paid homage to figures from ancient myth. Now, the Nymphaeum of Emperor Claudius ...

Beard is a classicist and the author, most recently, of Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Artists have failed to depict a complete set of Roman empresses, but we can ...

In her newest book, “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World,” Mary Beard renders a group portrait of the men who led the ancient empire, from their personal quirks to how they governed. Beard, who ...

Bear with me, but how often do you think about Ancient Rome? I’m only asking because this slightly bizarre question has been doing the rounds on social media after a flurry of viral Tik-Tok videos of ...

Early on in Confronting the Classics, Mary Beard tells the story of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus, who "used to seat his dinner guests on cushions that, unbeknownst to them, were full of air. As the ...