Professor Mary Beard

Professor Mary Beard was a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is an acclaimed author and broadcaster.

Cupids on a galley in the Nile, as depicted in a second-century AD mosaic (Photo by Bildarchiv Steffens/Bridgeman Images)

Roman holiday: when emperor Hadrian became a tourist of ancient Egypt

A photo of Mary Beard, smiling and looking towards the camera, standing between open gates.

Reviving Roman voices: Mary Beard on the remarkable life of one woman

Mary Beard, writer and feminist, at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019 on April 3, 2019 in Oxford, England

Video podcastMary Beard on how to live like a Roman emperor

Mary Beard

“The Roman empire cannot have been governed by a series of psychopaths. It would not have survived”Mary Beard on Roman Emperors

Pompeii,Italy

What was life like in ancient Pompeii? Mary Beard shares an A-Z guide