Mary Beard: Talking Classics

What’s exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old?

Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii?

Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway?

What’s the point? Mary Beard discusses whether, and why the classics still matter.

The most acclaimed classicist working today, Mary Beard is the Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge and is the Classics editor of the TLS. She is also the co-host, with Charlotte Higgins, of the podcast Instant Classics.

Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii as well as Confronting the Classics, SPQR, Women & Power and Emperor of Rome. Her work has been published in over 35 languages.

Tickets

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