On 14 February 2014 Beard delivered a lecture on the public voice of women at the British Museum as part of the London Review of Books winter lecture series. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
#Mary beard ultimate rome episode 3 summary series#
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 2004, Beard became Professor of Classics at Cambridge. By this point she was described by Paul Laity of The Guardian as "Britain's best-known classicist". In a November 2007 interview, she stated the hostility these comments provoked had still not subsided, though she believed it had become a standard viewpoint that terrorism was associated with American foreign policy. She opined that many people, once "the shock had faded", thought "the United States had it coming", and that "orld bullies, even if their heart is in the right place, will in the end pay the price". Shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, Beard was one of several authors invited to contribute articles on the topic to the London Review of Books.
Beard took over his role in 1992 at the request of Ferdinand Mount. John Sturrock, classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, approached her for a review and brought her into literary journalism. Rome in the Late Republic, which she co-wrote with Cambridge historian Michael Crawford, was published the following year. Academic career īetween 19, Beard lectured in classics at King's College, London she returned to Cambridge in 1984 as a Fellow of Newnham College and the only female lecturer in the classics faculty. She remained at Cambridge for her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree: she completed it in 1982 with a doctoral thesis titled The State Religion in the Late Roman Republic: A Study Based on the Works of Cicero. īeard graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree: as per tradition, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. Beard has since said that "Newnham could do better in making itself a place where critical issues can be generated" and has also described her views on feminism, saying "I actually can't understand what it would be to be a woman without being a feminist." Beard has cited Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, Kate Millett's Sexual Politics, and Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess as influential on the development of her personal feminism.
She also developed feminist views that remained "hugely important" in her later life, although she later described "modern orthodox feminism" as partly cant. In Beard's first year she found some men in the university still held very dismissive attitudes regarding the academic potential of women, which only strengthened her determination to succeed. She had considered King's, but rejected it when she learned the college did not offer scholarships to women. Īt 18 she sat the then-compulsory entrance exam and interview for Cambridge University, to win a place at Newnham College, a single-sex college. During the summer she would join archaeological excavations, though the motivation was, in part, just the prospect of earning some pocket-money. She was taught poetry by Frank McEachran, who was teaching then at the nearby Shrewsbury School, and was the inspiration for schoolmaster Hector in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys. īeard was educated at Shrewsbury High School, a girls' school then funded as a direct grant grammar school. She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging". Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, worked as an architect in Shrewsbury. Her mother, Joyce Emily Beard, was a headmistress and an enthusiastic reader. Mary Beard, an only child, was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
0 kommentar(er)
