Diary

Mary Beard

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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.

Other articles by this contributor:

Lucky City · Cicero

Don’t forget your pith helmet · The Tourist Trap

Four-Day Caesar · Tacitus and the Emperors

What Might Have Happened Upstairs · Pompeii

From the archive

In Judges’ Lodgings
Stephen Sedley settles in

On SIAC
Brian Barder explains why he resigned from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission

In Pursuit of Pinochet
Michael Byers discusses the legal implications of the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998

Short Cuts
John Sturrock: A Bath in the Dock

Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding: Shot At Dawn