For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.

Mary Beard opens this book with a recollection of her first meaningful encounter with the ancient world. It was ...

Talking Classics. By Mary Beard. University of Chicago Press; 208 pages; $22.50. Profile Books; £16.99 Extolling the virtues of learning Greek and Latin, John Stuart ...

Mary Beard will present Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old, as part of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Spring Author Events Series. This one-time event will invite discussions centered around ...

Few followers of Mary Beard’s colourful career will be surprised to hear that she was first drawn to antiquities by the sight of an ancient Egyptian bread roll. That triangular piece of old dough ...

Complete Information About Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old (1st Edition) in Philadelphia at Free Library of Philadelphia. Mary Beard will present Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old, as part ...