Mary Beard Books
Confronting the classics
By Mary Beard
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists, an academic with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience. Here, she draws on thirty years of teaching about Greek and Roman histo...
Read MoreHow do we look
By Mary Beard
"From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity"--
Read MoreWomen power
By Mary Beard
Two essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender.
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