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

Four-Day Caesar · Tacitus and the Emperors

What Might Have Happened Upstairs · Pompeii

Don’t forget your pith helmet · The Tourist Trap

From the archive

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

Drowned in the Desert
James Meek writes about A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes by Lee Goff

In Judges’ Lodgings
Stephen Sedley settles in

Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding: Shot At Dawn

Airy-Fairy
Conor Gearty: Blunkett’s Folly