Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She delivered a version of the essay in this issue as the Robert B. Silvers Lecture at the New York Public Library this autumn. (January 2012)
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Do the Classics Have a Future?
January 12, 2012
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The Dragging of Hector
November 24, 2011
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Alexander: How Great?
October 27, 2011
Alexander the Great
by Philip Freeman
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander
edited by James Romm, translated from the Greek by Pamela Mensch
Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction
by Pierre Briant, translated from the French by Amélie Kuhrt
Philip II of Macedonia
by Ian Worthington
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
by James Romm
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Cleopatra: The Myth
January 13, 2011
Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
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Which Thucydides Can You Trust?
September 30, 2010
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
by Donald Kagan
A Commentary on Thucydides, Volume III, Books 5.25–8.109
by Simon Hornblower
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Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
August 13, 2009
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
by Cathy Gere
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The Truth About Cleopatra
February 12, 2009
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
by Joyce Tyldesley
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Cruising with Caesar
December 18, 2008
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Isn’t It Funny?
July 17, 2008
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
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Looking for the Emperor
November 8, 2007
Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor
by Anthony Everitt
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Et Tu, Cicero?
March 15, 2007
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
by Robert Harris
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The Hero Pose
March 3, 2010
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Are Classics Classy? The Roman View
December 16, 2009