As you progress through your summer reading, ask yourself: Do I really want to tackle “The Odyssey”? The Christopher ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Mary Beard, author of "Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old," about the modern world's continued fascination with ancient cultures. The word "crap" appears at 2:54.

From Marvel movies to presidential elections their powerful influence endures on our stories, philosophies and politics, but what it was it like to be an Ancient Greek? Scattered clues need to be ...

As you progress through your summer reading, ask yourself: Do I really want to tackle “The Odyssey”? The Christopher ...

The Shock of the Old,’ the leading popularizer of the history of Ancient Rome shows how Trump, as Hitler and Mussolini did in ...

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When Mary Beard’s broadcasting career took off in her mid-50s, she became one of Great Britain’s best-known and most beloved academics thanks to her candor, knowledge about the ancient world and ...

Adapting a lecture into a book is difficult. A good lecture, even one that lasts an hour, should only cycle through a single full idea. The lecturer should introduce some supporting concepts, and ...

Speaking with the studied understatement of a Cambridge professor, classics scholar Mary Beard says of Plato, “if he was here, I’d want to give him a good talking to," noting that his Republic has ...

Here are a few key highlights to round things out about the Lion Television history flick. Caligula with Mary Beard starring Mary Beard, Greg Woolf, Timothy Peter Wiseman, Catharine Edwards has a Not ...

Among the myriad unpredictable events of 2017 are the literary successes of women this season. Who would have predicted that among the most talked-about writings of the year would be a very new, very ...