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Mary Beard

Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.

Selected bibliography

  • The Roman Triumph (2007)  Buy this book
  • Pompeii (2006)
  • The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard (2005)  Buy this book
  • The Parthenon (2004)  Buy this book
  • Classical Art: From Greece to Rome by Mary Beard and John Henderson (2001)
  • The Invention of Jane Harrison (2000)
  • Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History by Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price (1998)
  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard and John Henderson (1995)
  • Rome in the Late Republic by Mary Beard and Michael Crawford (1985)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Do come to me funeral · 5 July 2007

  • Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford edited by Peter Sussman  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Diary: Mary Beard on set in Tunisia · 14 December 2006

Don’t forget your pith helmet · 18 August 2005

  • Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor  Buy this book
  • Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor  Buy this book
  • Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Artemis Cooper  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Laddish · 2 September 2004

Four-Day Caesar · 22 January 2004

  • Tacitus: Histories I edited by Cynthia Damon

subscriber-only content How do you see Susan? · 20 March 2003

  • Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton
  • The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations by Maria Wyke

subscriber-only content Sun and Strawberries · 19 September 2002

subscriber-only content Bonté Gracieuse! · 21 February 2002

  • Asterix and the Actress by Albert Uderzo, translated by Anthea Bell

11 September · 4 October 2001

Lucky City · 23 August 2001

  • Cicero: A Turbulent Life by Anthony Everitt

subscriber-only content Degradation, Ugliness and Tears · 7 June 2001

  • A History of Harrow School by Christopher Tyerman

subscriber-only content Builder of Ruins · 30 November 2000

  • Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by J.A. MacGillivray

What Might Have Happened Upstairs · 16 September 1999

  • Pompeii: Public and Private Life by Paul Zanker, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Diary · 24 August 2000

 not available in archive What once seemed certain is now an open question · 27 April 2000

  • The Dons by Noel Annan
  • A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse by Richard Ollard

 not available in archive Half-Wrecked · 17 February 2000

  • John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian Darley
  • John Soane, Architect: Master of Space and Light by Margaret Richardson and Mary-Anne Stevens
  • Sir John Soane and the Country Estate by Ptolemy Dean

 not available in archive Bench Space · 15 April 1999

  • Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry

 not available in archive One of the Lads · 18 June 1998

  • Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony Birley

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