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.

In the LRB Archive:

• Was He Quite Ordinary?: Marcus Aurelius · 23 July 2009

  • Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn

• Do come to me funeral: Jessica Mitford · 5 July 2007

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

• Diary: set in Tunisia · 14 December 2006

• Don’t forget your pith helmet: The Tourist Trap · 18 August 2005

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

• Laddish: Nero’s Ups and Downs · 2 September 2004

  • Nero by Edward Champlin

• Four-Day Caesar: Tacitus and the Emperors · 22 January 2004

  • Tacitus: Histories I edited by Cynthia Damon

• How do you see Susan?: No Asp for Zenobia · 20 March 2003

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

• Sun and Strawberries: Gwen Raverat · 19 September 2002

  • Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections by Frances Spalding

• Bonté Gracieuse!: Astérix Redux · 21 February 2002

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

• Lucky City: Cicero · 23 August 2001

  • Cicero: A Turbulent Life by Anthony Everitt

• Degradation, Ugliness and Tears on Harrow School · 7 June 2001

  • A History of Harrow School by Christopher Tyerman

• Builder of Ruins on Arthur Evans · 30 November 2000

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

• Diary on rape · 24 August 2000

• What once seemed certain is now an open question on dons · 27 April 2000

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

• Half-Wrecked: What’s left of John Soame · 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

• What Might Have Happened Upstairs: Pompeii · 16 September 1999

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

• Bench Space: Norfolk Girl gets Nobel Prize · 15 April 1999

  • Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry

• One of the Lads · 18 June 1998

  • Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony Birley

• Martinis with the Bellinis · 31 July 1997

  • The Roy Strong Diaries 1967-87

• Not You · 23 January 1997

  • Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship edited by J.P. Hallett and T. van Nortwick

• Pull as archer, in lbs · 5 September 1996

  • Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits edited by Edward Shils and Carmen Blacker
  • A Woman in History: Eileen Power 1889-1940 by Maxine Berg

• Diary · 4 April 1996

• ‘Cancer Girl’ · 6 July 1995

  • The Diary of a Breast by Elisa Segrave

• Straight Talk · 9 February 1995

  • Marginal Comment by Kenneth Dover

• What belongs · 7 April 1994

  • On the Museum’s Ruins by Douglas Crimp

• What are we talking about when we talk about women? · 13 May 1993

  • Her Share of the Blessings by Ross Kraemer

• Don’t forget the primitive · 20 August 1992

  • Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War by Dudley Young

• Looking for the loo · 15 August 1991

  • You just don’t understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen

• Speaking up for Latin and Greek · 9 May 1991

  • Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen

• Sappho speaks · 11 October 1990

  • The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome by Jane McIntosh Snyder
  • The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece by J.J. Winkler
  • Greek Virginity by Giulia Sissa, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

• With the wind in our shrouds · 26 July 1990

  • The Making of ‘The Golden Bough’: The Origin and Growth of an Argument by Robert Fraser

• No Concubine · 28 June 1990

  • The Oxford Book of Marriage edited by Helge Rubinstein
  • The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia by Jack Goody

• Give her a snake · 22 March 1990

  • Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

• Cleopatra’s Books · 8 February 1990

  • The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World by Luciano Canfora, translated by Martin Ryle
  • Herodotus by John Gould

• Pow-Wow · 26 October 1989

  • After Thatcher by Paul Hirst
  • Out of Apathy: Voices of the New Left Thirty Years On
  • Essays on Politics and Literature by Bernard Crick

• Bound for the bad · 14 September 1989

  • Loss of the Good Authority: The Cause of Delinquency by Tom Pitt-Aikens and Alice Thomas Ellis

Letters

Select a letter to see more contributors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Contributor's Index »