Otha Beard

Hoe was het nou écht om te besturen en bestuurd te worden in het oude Rome?‘In Keizer van Rome gaan we in op de feiten en de verzinsels over de heerse

Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wi

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER & BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BLOOMBERG BES

A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary Beard revisits the gender agenda with new material

SPQR biedt een frisse kijk op de Romeinse geschie­denis door een van ’s werelds belangrijkste classici. Mary Beard onderzoekt niet alleen hoe Rome uit

Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though

'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy - scru

Covers the author's famous blog, A Don's Life, that ran on the "TLS" website for over three years.

Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. In this second collection following on from the success of I

The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global caus

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, a

The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. The author tells the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and oth

Gogmagog tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. We travel by boat, a rickety steam launch captained by Cady