Winifred Mary Beard, is an English scholar and classicist.
She is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature. She is the Classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist".
“It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.”
Mary Beard book SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Source: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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