Professor Mary Beard - The Ancient World and us: from fear and loathing to enlightenment and ethics
Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Events Details
Dates: 6, 7, 9, 27, 28, 30 May, 5.30-6.30pm.
The lectures may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm.
Venue: The Sypert Concert Room, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG
Tickets are free of charge and will be available here from 1 April 2019.
Series Update
We are delighted that Professor Mary Beard will be joining us this May to deliver a series of six Gifford Lectures. Further details will be available in the Spring.
Biography
Mary Beard is one of Britain's best-known Classicists - Professor at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College. She has written numerous books on the Ancient World including the Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town, has presented highly-acclaimed TV series, Meet the Romans and Rome – Empire without Limit, and is a regular broadcaster and media commentator. Mary is one of the presenters for the BBC’s recent landmark Civilisations series. Mary is also Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and writes a thought-provoking blog, A Don's Life. Made an OBE in 2013 for services to Classical scholarship, her latest books include the critically-acclaimed SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome and thought-provoking Women & Power. Most recently Mary was made a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2018.