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Mary Beard is Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has worldwide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, Confronting the Classics, SPQR, Women & Power and most recently, Emperor of Rome. She has made numerous television series and her books have been published in over thirty languages.[Mary Beard is] the best in the business
- Dan Snow,
Excellent ... an invigorating guide
- Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
Beautifully produced and elegantly written ... utterly compelling
- Linda Hogan, Irish Times
Enthralling
- John Carey,
[Beard] has always had the sharpest eyes for telling detail and colourful anecdote
Sunday Times
The rock star scholar of Ancient Rome
- Jo Ellison, Financial Times
With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured
Daily Telegraph
The reigning Queen of Classics
Spectator
Slim yet insightful. . . . Beard expands her view beyond western Europe to offer an admirable survey of cultures from Egypt to China, Judaism to Christianity, centuries past to the modern era, all while emphasizing the significance of the viewer over the artist. . . . As Beard emphasizes the power of the context in which we look at and interpret art, she ultimately suggests that civilization itself is a leap of faith. Beard is having fun in this joyfully accessible primer, backed with a robust appendix, for all interested in a new perspective on religion, art, and history.
Booklist
Praise for Mary Beard: What she says is always powerful and interesting
Guardian
An irrepressible enthusiast with a refreshing disregard for convention
Financial Times
If they'd had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire
Daily Mail
[She] implicitly invites us to think about our own world, and about our answers to the question of what makes us human
Sydney Morning Herald
Praise for SPQR: Fast-moving, exciting, psychologically acute, warmly sceptical
- Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
Vastly engaging ... a tremendously enjoyable and scholarly read
- Natalie Haynes, Observer
Sustaining the energy that such a topic demands for more than 600 pages, while providing a coherent answer to the question of why Rome expanded so spectacularly, is hugely ambitious. Beard succeeds triumphantly ... full of insights and delights ... SPQR is consistently enlivened by Beard's eye for detail and her excellent sense of humour
Sunday Times
Masterful ... This is exemplary popular history, engaging but never dumbed down, providing both the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life
Economist
Ground-breaking ... invigorating ... revolutionary ... a whole new approach to ancient history
- Thomas Hodgkinson, Spectator