Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

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Beard admitted that his attack felt like a punch, [40] but swiftly responded with a counter-attack on his intellectual abilities, accusing him of being part of "the blokeish culture that loves to decry clever women". They included, in 1980, her pioneering work on the Vestal Virgins, which, fashionably, used techniques borrowed from anthropology to reshape thinking about the priestesses who served the Roman goddess of the hearth. The most infamous case of this occurred in AD 59, when a riot broke out in the amphitheatre between Pompeians and visitors from nearby Nuceria.

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A short response to the September 11 attacks in the LRB brought a torrent of complaint from those who thought she said “America had it coming”. Her first books, when she got round to writing them in the late 1980s and 1990s – on Roman religion, on Rome in the late republic, and an introductory book on classics – were, unconventionally, written with fellow scholars.In her 20s she had produced some significant scholarly articles on Roman history – the kind featuring great chunks of untranslated Latin, German and Greek, and thick wads of footnotes. She was elected Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature for 2008–2009 at the University of California, Berkeley, where she delivered a series of lectures on "Roman Laughter". In 1994 she made an early television appearance on an Open Media discussion for the BBC, Weird Thoughts, [34] alongside Jenny Randles among others.

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Beard’s father was an architect specialising in historical buildings, and the family lived in Shropshire. I thought that most of the readers’ comments would be negative,” she told me in December, “but many more of them were positive. Interview with Raphael Cormack, author of "Midnight in Cairo": From dust to glory – the divas of Egypt's roaring 20s - Qantara.

It’s about how you relate to that person as a person, how seriously you take them, how much support you give them. Friday, she saw curators from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, whom she is advising on a redisplay of classical sculpture. Women and Power begins with a tribute to Beard’s mother – who lacked the opportunity to attend university, became a teacher and, very unusually for the 1950s, continued working after having children. Few would think it worth arguing with Arron Banks, the Ukip donor, when he said the Roman empire had collapsed because of immigration.

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Photograph: BBC Mary Beard visits Herculaneum and Pompeii, in a story not about the volcano but the people who were prematurely buried by it. With graffi ti in Hebrew, ivories from the Far East, Egyptian statues, and traces of exotic spices, interaction with other nationalities clearly took place.Otherwise don’t miss the Villa of the Mysteries, just outside the town walls, for really impressive painting (though touched up in the early 20th century rather more than is usually admitted). Another outed Eduard Fraenkel, a famous Oxford classicist, as a “serial groper”, but in doing so aired the uncomfortable truth that relationships between teachers and pupils (since Socrates and Agathon, you might say) have often had an erotic tinge. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently. A. Gill reviewed the programme, writing mainly about her appearance, judging her "too ugly for television".