Mary Beard
Sign in to saveEnglish classicist (born 1955)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1955
- Works
- 90
Top works
- SPQR
- Literacy in the Roman world
- Religions de Rome
- Age of Caesar
- El triunfo romano
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Film & TV
Acting · Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England, UK
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA is an English scholar of Ancient Roman civilization. The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible". Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
Known for
- Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard — Self - Presenter2024
- Sultana's Dream — Mary Beard (voice)2023
- Mary Beard's Forbidden Art2022
- Remembers… — Self2022
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self – Historian2022
- Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude — Self - Presenter2020
- Inside Culture — Self - Presenter2020
- Julius Caesar Revealed — Presenter2018
- Civilisations — Presenter2018
- Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards — Self2017
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 166
- Total plays
- 3,613
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 14,773x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,285x
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Key facts
- Born
- Winifred Mary Beard , ( 1955-01-01 ) 1 January 1955 (age 71) , Much Wenlock , Shropshire , England
- Spouse
- Robin Cormack ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 )
- Children
- 2, including Raphael
- Awards
- Wolfson History Prize (2009) Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2018) Princess of Asturias Awards (2016) Bodley Medal (2016)
- Education
- Newnham College, Cambridge ( MA , PhD )
- Thesis
- The state religion in the late Roman Republic: a study based on the works of Cicero (1982)
- Doctoral advisor
- John Crook
- Discipline
- Classics
- Sub discipline
- Ancient Rome Roman art Classical archaeology
- Institutions
- King's College London University of Cambridge University of California, Berkeley
- Notable works
- The Roman Triumph , SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1955
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Winifred
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Much Wenlock
- Spouse
- Robin Cormack
- Occupation
- historian
- Employer
- Newnham College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Joyce Reynolds
Article
Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
Beard is the classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, for which she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist". In 2014, The New Yorker characterised her as "learned but accessible".
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