Via Trionfale is a Roman road that leads to and within Rome , Italy. Formerly called Via Triumphalis , it was an ancient consular road that connected Rome to Veii . The northern terminus of the road connects with the Via Cassia .
73-574: The name given to the road most likely dates back to the victory of Marcus Furius Camillus over the city of Veii around 396 BC, for which was granted the right to a triumph on the road that led from Veii to the Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio Hill). Roman generals awarded a triumph traditionally proceeded from the Campus Martius to the Capitoline along this road. The route was identified during
146-457: A Fellow of Newnham College and the only female lecturer in the classics faculty. The book Rome in the Late Republic , which she co-wrote with Cambridge historian Michael Crawford , was published the following year. John Sturrock , classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement , approached her for a review and brought her into literary journalism. Beard took over his role in 1992 at
219-495: A Roman Town , submitting remains from the town to forensic tests, aiming to show a snapshot of the lives of the residents prior to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. In 2011 she took part in a television series, Jamie's Dream School on Channel 4 , in which she taught classics to teenagers with no experience of academic success. Beard is a regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4 series, A Point of View , delivering essays on
292-596: A broad range of topics including Miss World and the Oxbridge interview. For BBC Two in 2012 she wrote and presented the three part television series, Meet the Romans with Mary Beard , which concerns how ordinary people lived in Rome, "the world's first global metropolis". The critic A. A. Gill reviewed the programme, writing mainly about her appearance, judging her "too ugly for television". Beard admitted that his attack felt like
365-474: A colony at Carthage with further embellishment of its anti-Italian themes during the time of the Social War . Regardless, the ancient tradition records that within a year after Rome was reduced to ruins, the city had been completely rebuilt and all rebellions by Roman allies suppressed due to the extraordinary leadership of Camillus, who is therefore regarded as the city's "second founder". In these victories, he
438-410: A few months. More damningly, a passage of Aulus Gellius ' Attic Nights (5.4) preserves a fragment of Numerius Fabius Pictor that shows that alleged years where tribunes blocked all elections were a late annalistic invention, likely to line up Greek and Roman chronologies. The three alleged rogations touched on a number of topics. The first rogation was a mechanism for debt relief. The second imposed
511-584: A fragment of Aristotle asserting that "a certain Lucius" (probably a Lucius Albinius who is recorded to have secreted away the Vestal Virgins and sacred objects to Caere ) having saved the city. Polybius reports that rather than being defeated by Camillus, the Gauls occupied the city for some seven months before the Romans bought them off and they departed of their own accord to deal with an invasion of their territory by
584-412: A general, moderation in the face of hot-headed colleagues, and triumphant recall from exile. The memory of Camillus became part of the public image of the first Roman emperor Augustus . The history of Livy, for example, may have been written to coincide at the beginning of a great year consisting of 360–365 years. Starting with Romulus , the cycle reaches a peak under king Servius Tullius before
657-400: A larger annalistic tradition which painted Camillus as the dominant figure in this period of history; Livy, for his part, organised his fifth and sixth books around Camillus' career (Camillus enters public office at the start of the fifth book and leaves it at the end of the sixth). Little evidence of this tradition survives, though fragments of Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius ' work indicate that
730-643: A letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue . She was a member of the Labour Party until Tony Blair became leader. In July 2015, Beard endorsed Jeremy Corbyn 's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election . She said: "If I were a member of the Labour Party , I would vote for Corbyn. He actually seems to have some ideological commitment, which could get
803-418: A make-over. In 2015, Beard was again a panellist on BBC's Question Time from Bath. During the programme, she praised Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for behaving with a "considerable degree of dignity" against claims he faces an overly hostile media. She said: "Quite a lot of what Corbyn says I agree with, and I rather like his different style of leadership. I like hearing argument not soundbites. If
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#1732844736127876-462: A patrician-only praetor and curule aediles (in exchange for plebeian eligibility to the consulship); all accept the passage of the rogations and domestic harmony is restored; Camillus then constructs a temple to Concordia . "Very little of this narrative can be accepted as it stands". While Diodorus Siculus reports the length of the anarchy to have been merely one year, it is implausible that Rome could have been without magistrates for more than
949-541: A place at Newnham College , a single-sex college. She had considered King's , but rejected it when she learned the college did not offer scholarships to women. In Beard's first year she found some men in the university still held very dismissive attitudes regarding the academic potential of women, which only strengthened her determination to succeed. She also developed feminist views that remained "hugely important" in her later life, although she later described "modern orthodox feminism" as partly cant . One of her tutors
1022-480: A possession limit of 500 jugera of public land. The third was the reform that abolished the consular tribunate and required the election of consuls, one of which had to be a plebeian. Gary Forsythe, in Critical history of early Rome , accepts that the first law is consistent with voiced concerns over indebtedness from this period, that the second (limits on public land possession) is attested to in later speeches, and that
1095-399: A punch, but swiftly responded with a counter-attack on his intellectual abilities, accusing him of being part of "the blokeish culture that loves to decry clever women". This exchange became the focus of a debate about older women on the public stage, with Beard saying she looked an ordinary woman of her age and "there are kids who turn on these programmes and see there's another way of being
1168-536: A report in The Times of Oxfam employees engaging in sexual exploitation in disaster zones, Beard tweeted "Of course one can't condone the (alleged) behaviour of Oxfam staff in Haiti and elsewhere. But I do wonder how hard it must be to sustain 'civilised' values in a disaster zone. And overall I still respect those who go in and help out, where most of us would not tread." This led to widespread criticism, in which Mary Beard
1241-487: A respectable academic, Professor Beard was presumably brought in to back up Randi, but her views are interestingly hard to define. She agrees with Picknett's suggestion that 'weird' should be reclassified as 'other', noting this is how the ancient world referred to overseas lands. This suggestion that UFOs should be bracketed with, say, Perth shows why Beard, particularly in this company, is a very modern thinker. In 2010, on BBC Two , Beard presented Pompeii: Life and Death in
1314-502: A second founding under Camillus, completing the cycle. The next cycle has a second peak in the time of Scipio Africanus before Augustus enters as the figure to re-found Rome again and restart the great year, with Livy suggesting that Romulus, Camillus, and Augustus are coequal heroic figures. Mary Beard (classicist) Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome . She
1387-474: A second lecture for the same partners, entitled Women in Power: from Medusa to Merkel . It considered the extent to which the exclusion of women from power is culturally embedded, and how idioms from ancient Greece are still used to normalise gendered violence. She argues that "we don't have a model or a template for what a powerful woman looks like. We only have templates that make them men." In 2019, Beard gave
1460-508: A way she deemed authentic. On 4 August 2013, she received a bomb threat on Twitter, hours after the UK head of Twitter had apologised to women who had experienced abuse on the service. Beard said she did not think she was in physical danger, but considered it harassment and wanted to "make sure" that another case had been logged by the police. She has been praised for exposing "social media at its most revolting and misogynistic". In 2017, Beard became
1533-423: A woman", without Botox and hair dye. Charlotte Higgins assessed Beard as one of the rare academics who is both well respected by her peers and has a high profile in the media. In 2013 she presented Caligula with Mary Beard on BBC Two, describing the making of myths around leaders and dictators. Interviewers continued to ask about her self-presentation, and she reiterated that she had no intention of undergoing
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#17328447361271606-732: Is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge . She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge , and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature . Beard is the classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement , for which she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist". In 2014, The New Yorker characterised her as "learned but accessible". Mary Beard, an only child,
1679-594: Is about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi). It is typically very busy during the day, particularly on areas of the road that only have one lane on each side. In September 2010, the doubling of the carriageway, two lanes in each direction, was completed between the northern entrance of the Agostino Gemelli polyclinic and the Forte Trionfale. On January 23, 2007, the ramps of the Via Trionfale junction were inaugurated with
1752-535: Is an "evident anachronism". The story of conviction, however, likely did not happen and was instead adduced to place Camillus away from Rome when the Gallic sack occurs, excusing him of any blame for Rome's defeat. In 390 BC ( Varronian ), or more likely in 387 BC, a large group of Gauls crossed the Apennines into northern Etruria. They advanced until they reached Roman territory and there defeated Rome's army at
1825-526: Is first firmly recorded as entering public office in 401 BC. He served in that year and again in 398 BC as consular tribune against the Falisci and the Capenates. Both were tribes near Rome and Veii . His first supposed office was that of censor (before having held any other public office) in the year 403 BC. He was then supposed to have, as dictator , completed a campaign against Veii which saw
1898-559: Is likely that many of the details of his return in Livy were copied from the less historically distant triumphal entrances of Scipio Africanus or Sulla . In 394 BC, he supposedly secured the surrender of the Falisci in their main town of Falerii Veteres (modern Civita Castellana ) after refusing to accept pupils from a schoolmaster as hostages. Much of the Livian narrative about the exchange with
1971-581: Is supposed to have dedicated three gold saucers to Juno for victory against the Volscians , Aequians , and Etruscans all the next year in 389 BC. None of these achievements are mentioned in Polybius or Diodorus. Livy next reports Rome sending Camillus to take the city of Tusculum in 381 BC. The city, already surrounded by Roman territory, immediately surrenders and the inhabitants thereof are given Roman citizenship with some level of self-rule, becoming
2044-498: Is unlikely that any evidence of Camillus' death was known in later times: Münzer, writing in the Realencyclopädie , believes later annalists simply assumed Camillus died in the epidemic. By the late republic, after centuries of embellishment from the fourth to the first century BC, the Romans believed that Camillus had captured Veii, saved the city from the Gallic sack, saved the city from foreign threats on all sides, opened
2117-568: The Battle of the Allia . In the following days, they entered Rome and sacked it. They then induced the surrender of Roman holdouts on the Capitoline hill before receiving a large ransom of gold and withdrawing north. This account is corroborated by Greek sources as early as the 4th century BC; Polybius places the sack in the same year as the Peace of Antalcidas and the siege of Rhegium . According to Livy, after
2190-518: The Grande Raccordo Anulare (in the Ottavia area). The junction was completely opened to traffic around January 2009. The Fontana di Piazza Pia exists on the route. The fountain was constructed in 1862 by Pope Pius IX , replacing an earlier fountain by Pope Paul V from 1614. The fountain was designed by Filippo Martinucci . It has now been obscured from view due to the raising and widening of
2263-835: The Renaissance and described by Flavio Biondo in Roma Triumphans book X. Important ancient landmarks were the Triumphal Bridge ( Pons Neronianus ) over the Tiber , now demolished, the Triumphal Gate (Porta Triumphalis), the Arch of Arcadius, Honorius, and Theodosius, and the termination of the route at the Temple of Janus Quadrifrons . The 1828 book A Tour in Italy and Sicily noted that Via Trionfale
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2336-602: The Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities at the University of Chicago . She was elected Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature for 2008–2009 at the University of California, Berkeley , at which she delivered a series of lectures on "Roman Laughter". In 2014, Beard delivered a lecture on the public voice of women at the British Museum as part of the London Review of Books winter lecture series. It
2409-462: The Veneti . While the literary sources assert Rome was sacked and had to be rebuilt, there is no archaeological evidence of major damage to pre-fourth century BC buildings in the forum , which indicates that the sack – if it occurred – consisted largely of stealing portable property. After the sack, Camillus is supposed to have led the opposition to a proposal circulating among the plebs to relocate
2482-510: The names Camillus, Manlius Capitolinus, and Sulpicius to inscriptions placed on the temple of Juno Moneta (erected in 345 BC by Lucius Furius Camillus ). The cognomen Camillus derives from the title of an aristocratic youth who helped in religious duties; it is possible that a young Camillus served in such a position. His filiation is identical with that of the consul of 413 BC, Lucius Furius Medullinus , which may indicate that Medullinus and Camillus were brothers. Camillus
2555-448: The oracle at Delphi . Camillus, as commander, then persuades Veii's goddess, Juno Regina, to leave the city and move to Rome. Archaeological remains near Veii include blocked drainage tunnels from the fifth-century, which may indicate the possibility that this story in Livy arises a Romans breakthrough into the city through them. Following the capture of the city, Livy reports that Camillus had its free population sold into slavery before
2628-576: The sesquicentennial Public Lecture for the North American Society for Classical Studies , marking the 150-year anniversary of the organisation. The topic of her presentation was What do we mean by Classics now? She delivered the Gifford Lectures in May 2019 at Edinburgh University , under the title The Ancient World and Us: From Fear and Loathing to Enlightenment and Ethics. In 2020, Beard
2701-595: The Centre for African Studies at the University of Oxford. Their son Raphael Cormack is an author, editor and translator specialising in Arabic Cultural History and Literature. In 2000, Beard revealed in an essay for the London Review of Books reviewing a book on rape that she too had been raped, in 1978. Her blog, A Don's Life , gets about 40,000 hits a day, according to The Independent (2013). Beard
2774-610: The Labour Party is going through a rough time, and I'm sure it is rough to be in there, it might actually all be to the good. He might be changing the party in a way that would make it easier for people like me to vote for." 2016 saw Beard present Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed with Mary Beard on BBC One in March. While May 2016, brought about a four-part series shown on BBC Two, titled Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit . Beard's standalone documentary Julius Caesar Revealed
2847-629: The Via Trionfale. Marcus Furius Camillus Marcus Furius Camillus ( / k ə ˈ m ɪ l ə s / ; possibly c. 448 – c. 365 BC ) is a semi-legendary Roman statesman and politician during the early Roman republic who is most famous for his capture of Veii and defence of Rome from Gallic sack after the Battle of the Allia . Modern scholars are dubious of Camillus' supposed exploits and believe many of them are wrongly attributed or otherwise wholly fictitious. The traditional account of Camillus' life comes from Livy and Plutarch's eponymous Life . But these were based on
2920-456: The attitudes, context and beliefs of their authors, not as reliable sources for the events they address. The other is that she argues that modern histories of Rome must be contextualised within the attitudes, world views and purposes of their authors. In 1994 she made an early television appearance on an Open Media discussion for the BBC, Weird Thoughts , alongside Jenny Randles among others. This
2993-469: The book SPQR , to write "Camillus is probably not much less fictional than the first Romulus". Mommsen, writing in Römisches Strafrecht , called Camillus' legend "the most dishonest of all Roman legends". Tim Cornell, writing of Camillus, calls him "the most artificially contrived of all Rome's heroes". Other scholars have suggested that Camillus emerged from a popular oral tradition which linked
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3066-459: The charge, though a quaestorian trial for misappropriation is more likely, Camillus was reportedly convicted and sent into exile. Historians believe this story of disgrace before the courts is modelled on fates of Achilles and Scipio Africanus and is meant to draw comparison with Themistocles and Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus . The underlying source for the story likely postdates the Sullan period and
3139-511: The city and recovering the ransom. This story was probably a creation of Roman annalists during the first century BC; Ogilvie in his Commentary on Livy , calls it "one of the most daring fabrications in Roman history". Other traditions have different narratives: for example, the Livii Drusi are supposed to have by single combat with a Gaul named Drausus recovered the same ransom; Plutarch records
3212-579: The city captured in 396 BC. The specific story of Veii's capture in Livy is mostly legendary. After a ten-year siege (the third Veientine war) – "obviously modelled on the Greek legend of the Trojan war " – the Alban Lake rises supernaturally after a supposed prophecy of Veii's destruction in its "Books of Fate". The Romans then extirpate the prodigy by building a tunnel to drain the lake after being so instructed by
3285-475: The city to Veii. This story also cannot be accepted and is more likely "a reflection of the tensions that arose concerning the distribution of the conquered territory of Veii" and to introduce "anti-plebeian elements" into the Camillan narrative. The speech does not appear in Polybius and may have been invented c. 122 BC in order to oppose by historical precedent Gaius Gracchus ' proposal to establish
3358-646: The development of her personal feminism. Beard graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. As was traditional, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. She remained at Cambridge for her Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ) degree, completing it in 1982 with a doctoral thesis titled The State Religion in the Late Roman Republic: A Study Based on the Works of Cicero . Between 1979 and 1983, Beard lectured in classics at King's College, London ; she returned to Cambridge in 1984 as
3431-470: The end pay the price". In a November 2007 interview, she stated the hostility these comments provoked had still not subsided, though she believed it had become a standard viewpoint that terrorism was associated with American foreign policy . By this point she was described by Paul Laity of The Guardian as "Britain's best-known classicist". In 2004, Beard, through internal promotion, became Professor of Classics at Cambridge . In 2007–2008, Beard gave
3504-402: The fall of the city, Camillus is recalled from exile at Ardea by the people and appointed again as dictator – even though a consular tribune was available to nominate a dictator in the normal fashion – in the city's hour of need. Then, at the climax of the Gallic sack, when a thousand pounds of gold is being weighed out, Camillus and a hastily organised army returns and defeats the Gauls, saving
3577-509: The first Roman municipium . Tusculum would be one of the first to revolt in the Second Latin War . Both Camillus' role in Manlius' sedition and his later dictatorship (engaging the Gauls and plebeian reforms) may be anachronistic and fictitious insertions. The account of Dio , coming from a Byzantine summary by Zonaras , asserts Camillus was elected dictator in 384 BC to put down
3650-465: The highest magistracies to the plebeians, ensured domestic harmony, and largely settled the struggle of the orders. Through it all, they believed he had held six consular tribunates and been dictator five times. For these reasons, he was hailed as the second founder of the city. A bronze statue of Camillus also bedecked itself on the rostra in the Forum . His reputation by the late republic and early empire
3723-460: The land was resettled with Roman citizens with land allotments of seven jugera . Archaeological evidence points to Romans switching quarries: after the capture of Veii's better-quality quarries, Roman structures switch largely to using stone sourced therefrom, which may suggest enslaved Veientine quarry workers. Camillus then celebrates a triumph and dedicates a temple of Juno on the Aventine . It
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#17328447361273796-457: The last five or six years, they blocked the election of all magistrates in an attempt to pass what would become the Licinio-Sextian rogations . Camillus is alleged to have been elected dictator in 368 BC and attempted to obstruct their attempts, without success. But the next year, he is appointed dictator again. He then reconciles the plebeians and the patricians with a proposal to appoint
3869-535: The myth of Camillus was well-established by the 80s and 70s BC. The name Camillus is attested in the Etruscan François Tomb , built c. 300 BC near Vulci . One of the paintings therein describes a "Gneve Tarchunies Rumach" (probably Gnaeus Tarquinius the Roman) being killed by a "Marce Camitlnas" (possibly Marcus Camitilius or Marcus Camillus). It is not known, however, what specific legend
3942-545: The pupils; the Faliscans then surrender the city before Camillus' good faith. Camillus is similarly alleged to have resigned a dictatorship to which he was appointed merely because of faulty procedure; Livy mentions it – an event that "almost certainly never took place" – as an example of Roman legal scruples. In all, Camillus is mentioned in Livy's Ab urbe condita as an example to be followed eight times, an "unusually high frequency", usually in relation to his alleged successes as
4015-517: The request of Ferdinand Mount . Shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center , Beard was one of several authors invited to contribute articles on the topic to the London Review of Books . She opined that many people, once "the shock had faded", thought "the United States had it coming", and that "[w]orld bullies, even if their heart is in the right place, will in
4088-437: The schoolmaster is meant to recount an exemplum which stresses the importance of Roman good will ( Latin : fides ) and the importance of gentlemanly aristocratic behaviour. After taking Veii and Falisci, Camillus is supposed to have been prosecuted. Accounts differ: he may have been accused by the quaestors of misappropriating spoils of war or of his extravagance in purchasing four white horses for his triumph. Whatever
4161-583: The sedition of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus , who is believed to be trying to make himself king. Camillus reportedly has Manlius arrested by a slave before a trial; Manlius is convicted and then thrown from the Tarpeian Rock . No such attribution is given in the accounts of Livy and Plutarch, who note Camillus merely as one of the six consular tribunes in that year. According to Livy, there are ten years in which Gaius Licinius Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus were elected plebeian tribunes continuously. During
4234-557: The target of considerable online abuse after she made the case that Roman Britain was more ethnically diverse than is often assumed. The source of the controversy was a BBC educational video depicting a senior Roman soldier as a black man, which Beard defended as entirely possible after the video received backlash. There followed, according to Beard, "a torrent of aggressive insults, on everything from my historical competence and elitist ivory tower viewpoint to my age, shape and gender [batty old broad, obese, etc etc]." In 2018, in response to
4307-483: The third is reflected in the consular fasti . Livy includes in the same year of this compromise, 367 BC, another alleged victory by Camillus over the Gauls. Modern scholars are especially suspicious of this report, especially because Livy notes confusion in his own sources over this victory, which is alternatively attributed to Titus Manlius Torquatus . According the ancient Roman tradition, Camillus died during an epidemic that hit Rome in 365 BC. However, it
4380-479: The tomb depicts. Some scholars have suggested that Camitlnas refers to the Camillus of this article, but such attribution is problematic. Scholars believe Camillus qua person probably existed: the fasti , if believed, record his importance and influence in Roman public life at this time. But, in general, the quality of the sources – which interject "plenty of myth, embellishment, and fantasy" – led Mary Beard , in
4453-441: Was Joyce Reynolds . Beard has since said that "Newnham could do better in making itself a place where critical issues can be generated" and has also described her views on feminism, saying "I actually can't understand what it would be to be a woman without being a feminist." Beard has cited Germaine Greer 's The Female Eunuch , Kate Millett 's Sexual Politics , and Robert Munsch 's The Paper Bag Princess as influential on
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#17328447361274526-468: Was "only eight feet wide and completely arched over with trees" around that time period. The book also noted that the road was "paved with stones two or three feet in diameter, irregular, yet closely fitted together, and so deep set in the ground as to now be in perfect order after the lapse of so many centuries." At that time, it was also noted that some of the stones had the initials "V.N." carved into them, which stands for "via numinis ". The current route
4599-483: Was accused of racism. In response, Beard posted a picture of herself crying, explaining that she had been subjected to a "torrent of abuse" and that "I find it hard to imagine that anyone out there could possibly think that I am wanting to turn a blind eye to the abuse of women and children". Beard married Robin Cormack , a classicist and art historian, in 1985. Their daughter Zoe is an anthropologist and historian based at
4672-553: Was appointed a trustee of the British Museum. In 2023, Profile Books published Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World . Writing for Literary Review , Harry Sidebottom called it "her best book so far". University of Chicago classicist Clifford Ando described Beard's scholarship as having two key aspects in its approach to sources. One is that she insists that ancient sources be understood as documentation of
4745-538: Was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock , Shropshire. Her mother, Joyce Emily Beard, was a headmistress and an enthusiastic reader. Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, worked as an architect in Shrewsbury . She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging". Beard was educated at Shrewsbury High School , a girls' school then funded as a direct grant grammar school . She
4818-405: Was characterised in an article in 2021 as follows: Weird Thoughts , where Tony Wilson chairs a panel of experts debating why the 1990s seem so very strange. There are a lot of familiar faces here – the late James Randi , Fortean Times founder Bob Rickard , esoteric scholar Lynn Picknett – but today the biggest name is the one hovering around the back of the gathering: a young Mary Beard. As
4891-490: Was created by a fan. Beard is known for being active on X (formerly Twitter), which she sees as part of her public role as an academic. Beard received considerable online abuse after she appeared on BBC's Question Time from Lincolnshire in January 2013 and cast doubt on the negative rhetoric about immigrant workers living in the county. She asserted her right to express unpopular opinions and to present herself in public in
4964-639: Was later renamed Inside Culture and is broadcast on BBC Two. She also released The Shock of the Nude - a two-part TV documentary tackling controversies surrounding the naked body in the arts, from ancient classics to the visual cultures of today. In April 2013 she was named as Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature. Beard was awarded an honorary degree from Oxford University in June 2018. She also received an honorary degree from Yale University in May 2019. In 2018, an unofficial Lego figure of Beard
5037-431: Was recorded and broadcast on BBC Four a month later under the title Oh Do Shut Up, Dear! . The lecture begins with the example of Telemachus , the son of Odysseus and Penelope , admonishing his mother to retreat to her chamber. (The title alludes to Prime Minister David Cameron telling a female MP to "Calm down, dear!", which earned widespread criticism as a "classic sexist put-down". ) Three years later, Beard gave
5110-399: Was set to retire in 2022 and started a scholarship as a "retirement present" worth £80,000 in order to support two disadvantaged students' classical studies at Cambridge. Beard has been a Labour Party member and describes herself as having a socialist disposition, being a committed feminist and an anti-racist. In August 2014, Beard was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to
5183-517: Was shown on BBC One in 2018. In March, she wrote and presented "How Do We Look?" and "The Eye of Faith", two of the nine episodes in Civilisations , a reboot of the 1969 series by Kenneth Clark . In 2019, Beard appeared in an episode of The Grand Tour , having dinner with host James May , in his effort to get his car photographed by paparazzi. In 2020, Beard became the host of the newly developed topical arts series Lockdown Culture , which
5256-443: Was such that Camillus was a source of exempla : fables giving lessons for Romans on how to act in line both with morals and with Roman tradition and procedures. One of the most famous ones is during Camillus' capture of Faliscii: one of their schoolmasters defects, bringing with him to the camp his pupils who are Faliscan nobles' children. Camillus, displaying his exemplary fides , has the schoolmaster reprimanded and punished by
5329-494: Was taught poetry by Frank McEachran , who was teaching then at the nearby Shrewsbury School , and was the inspiration for schoolmaster Hector in Alan Bennett 's play The History Boys . During the summer she would join archaeological excavations , though the motivation was, in part, just the prospect of earning some pocket-money. At 18 she sat the then-compulsory entrance exam and interview for Cambridge University , to win
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