Mary Beard, Q and A from Latin students. How do Classics benefit the public? Bettina Joy de Guzman

My high school students Interview Mary Beard! My students were actually sitting next to me Zooming with Mary but I edited them out of the video because I teach ages 13-18. They are so proud to interview Mary! 😊Thank you dear Mary!

Questions include returning British Museum acquisitions such as Parthenon marbles and Rosetta Stone; impact of Classics and archaeology.

Dame Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA, FRSL is arguably the most well-known Classicist today. Mary Beard (as she is known worldwide) is a trustee of the British Museum and recently retired from a professorship of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.

Mary Beard is the classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she writes her blog, "A Don's Life". She has made several documentaries and hosted several shows for BBC. The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible".

Books:

Rome in the Late Republic (with Michael Crawford, 1985, revised 1999); ISBN 0-7156-2928-X

The Good Working Mother's Guide (1989); ISBN 0-7156-2278-1

Pagan Priests: Religion and Power in the Ancient World (as editor with John North, 1990); ISBN 0-7156-2206-4

Classics: A Very Short Introduction (with John Henderson, 1995); ISBN 0-19-285313-9
Religions of Rome (with John North and Simon Price, 1998); ISBN 0-521-30401-6 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-521-45015-2 (vol. 2)

The Invention of Jane Harrison (Harvard University Press, 2000); ISBN 0-674-00212-1 (About Jane Ellen Harrison, 1850–1928, one of the first female career academics)

Classical Art from Greece to Rome (with John Henderson, 2001); ISBN 0-19-284237-4
The Parthenon (Harvard University Press, 2002); ISBN 1-86197-292-X

The Colosseum (with Keith Hopkins, Harvard University Press, 2005); ISBN 1-86197-407-8
The Roman Triumph (Harvard University Press, 2007); ISBN 0-674-02613-6

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008); ISBN 1-86197-516-3 (US title: The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found; Harvard University Press)

It's a Don's Life (Profile Books, 2009); ISBN 978-1846682513

All in a Don's Day (Profile Books, 2012); ISBN 978-1846685361

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Profile Books, 2013 / Liveright Publishing, 2013); ISBN 1-78125-048-0

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (University of California Press, 2014); ISBN 0-520-27716-3

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile Books, 2015 / Liveright Publishing, 2015); ISBN 9780871404237

Women & Power: A Manifesto (Profile Books, 2017 / Liveright Publishing, 2017); ISBN 978-1788160605

Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith (Profile Books, 2018 / Liveright Publishing, 2018, published in the U.S. as How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization; ISBN 978-1781259993

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Princeton University Press, 2021) ISBN 978-0691222363

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