Mary Beard
Person on 3 sites
British classicist, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and author of SPQR and Pompeii.
-
1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2026-10-30 -
6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
-
An introduction to Classics today needs more on classics and race. (opens korrents.com)
“we were, for example, keen to talk about class and elitism in the 1990s, but there is next to nothing about classics and race”
-
Schools should promote speaking skills on a level with reading and writing. (opens korrents.com)
“So, it is hard not to be behind Lucy Powell’s recently expressed desire to promote speaking skills in schools, on a level with reading and writing.”
-
Turning speaking skills into a graded school subject called "oracy" risks reducing persuasion to marking criteria. (opens korrents.com)
“But more than that, it looks all ready to be pared down from a range of complicated ideas about human persuasion to a curricular subject that can be summarized and, inevitably, graded and examined.”
-
An introduction to Classics today needs more on classics and race. (opens korrents.com)
-
5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
-
The Greeks and the Irrational (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is one of the books that made me decide that classics was worth spending a lifetime on.”
-
The Annals (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is the best work of history ever written – that's a big claim.”
-
The Last Days of Pompeii (opens rcmnd.app)
“But also there is this incredible influence it has on anyone studying Pompeii. It's the classic Pompeii disaster story everybody replays when they write about Pompeii.”
-
The Greeks and the Irrational (opens rcmnd.app)