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Mary Beard
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English classicist (born 1955)
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Mary Beard is a British university teacher, classical philologist, historian, and television presenter. Born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England, in 1955, she was educated at Newnham College. Her academic career includes positions at King's College London and Newnham College, with work located in Cambridge. She holds the rank of professor and is affiliated with the University of Cambridge.
Beard has authored approximately 90 works, including *Literacy in the Roman world*, *Religions de Rome*, *Age of Caesar*, *El triunfo romano*, and *Parthenon*. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, Academia Europaea, and the Society of Antiquaries of London. Her awards include the Officer of the Order of the British Empire, the Princess of Asturias Awards, the Wolfson History Prize, and Fellowship of the British Academy. She is married to Robin Cormack.
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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
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,781x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,832x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,756x
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,174x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,380x
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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
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Encyclopedic overview
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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