Mary Beard

Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book is Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, which won the Wolfson History Prize for 2008. (August 2009)

From the Review

August 13, 2009: Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere

February 12, 2009: The Truth About Cleopatra

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

December 18, 2008: Cruising with Caesar

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.

Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman

Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History by Denis Feeney

July 17, 2008: Isn't It Funny?

Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by Jim Holt

Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 BC–AD 250 by John R. Clarke

November 8, 2007: Looking for the Emperor

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt

March 15, 2007: Et Tu, Cicero?

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris