Mary Beard Books
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introduction offer stimulating, accessible introductions to a wide variety of subjects, demonstrating the finest contemporary thinking about their central problems and issues.
Read MoreThe Invention of Jane Harrison
By Mary Beard
"Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British acad...
Read MoreThe Parthenon Wonders of the World
By Mary Beard
From the Publisher: Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, po...
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