Born on New Year’s Day in 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, Dame Mary Beard began her academic career studying classics at ...
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Mary Beard: Why Trump really is like a Roman emperor
It’s fun – I like it,” says Dame Mary Beard of Taylor Swift’s “Cassandra”. The world’s most famous classicist may not be a Swiftie, but she is delighted that one of today’s biggest pop stars has named ...
Bust of roman emperor Domitian in the Louvre Museum in Paris (Wikimedia Commons). As much historiography as it is history, Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome is monumental: intricately detailed, ...
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I traveled to an ancient world to see a future version of America. The "No Kings" chant is a bit off. Donald Trump's true ...
The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...
‘Pax’ is the third book from historian Tom Holland’s extensive bibliography to receive an exclusive luxury edition courtesy ...
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