podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... An Instant Classics (sort of) two-parter. Here Charlotte and I talk about my book on the excitement of Classics. Next time Grayson Perry on why he hates classical civ!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... This week I talk about Talking Classics (on Instant Classics). Next week it’s Grayson Perry on why he hates classical civilisation!
You have 24 hrs (till end of 15 April) to preorder my Talking Classics book from Waterstones and enter the prize draw for a trip to Pompeii, a walk around the site with me and dinner. Details here www.waterstones.com/win/talking-...
A rectangular landscape graphic with a yellow background. On the left-hand side is the hardback book Talking Classics by Mary Beard. To the right of the text are the words, 'Celebrate Mary Beard's Talking Classics with a free pain aux raisins and hot drink*. *While stocks last, Thursday 16th April only'. The graphic features the Maison Bertaux and Profile Books logos.
Mark your diaries!
There's just 1 week until we publish @wmarybeard.bsky.social's #TalkingClassics. To celebrate, we're partnering with Maison Bertaux (on Greek Street, no less!) to give early customers a free pain aux raisins and hot drink on publication day! While stocks last, 16th Apr only 🥐
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... this week on Instant Classics- 3rd century CE Perpetua. What did it feel like to be facing trial as a Christian in the Roman Empire. In her own words
Last orders. Here are the final dates for my upcoming book tour (only a very few tickets left for Geog Soc and Penarth)..hope to see you
"My" Aphrodite (of course she's not "mine") is getting around. Talking Classics is published on 16 April & if you pre order from UK from Waterstones by then, you will be entered in the prize draw for a free trip to Pompeii + tour with me.
I'm signing my new book, Talking Classics, at Heffers in Cambridge on 17 April. Come and have a chat! Reserve your free spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-cl...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Antigone the heroine? Take a look/listen at our new episode of Instant Classice
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Latest episode of Instant classics is on Antigone: the young woman who stood up to tyranny and paid with her life. Or is there more to it?
Briseis & the Women, Grieving: Iliad 19. Ancient 3-string lute, lyre, frame drum, voice. Performed & composed by Bettina Joy de Guzman.
Art: Brittany Beverung
Lute and Lyre made by @Luthieros
I love my publishers who have produced this cardboard cutout Aphrodite as or for my latest book “Talking Classics”. She’s looking great. But what shall I do with her afterwards. ?
Friends in the USA. I have a new book out in May, Talking Classics. And I have a book tour from Nashville to Chicago, via Philly, NYC, and DC... Pre-order here tinyurl.com/4mwxy5hh
Rare chance to see the 1913 Italian silent movie of Last Days of Pompeii. London, May 6. Details here www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/0...
Wonderful brunch this morning with Mary Beard. She’s got a new podcast, called “Instant Classics,” which is a must listen — great guests and topics already: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i.... You can also become a Member of the Instant Classics Book Club: instantclassics.supportingcast.fm
Emily Gowers reviews the Metamorphoses exhibition in Amsterdam in this week's TLS @thetls.bsky.social
It is indeed. It was moving being with it (memorable years back)
A real shocker this. We featured it in one of our tv programmes (Meet the Romans I think).
Front cover of "Talking Classics" by Mary Beard.
EXCITING NEWS!
We'll be getting SIGNED copies of "Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old" by Professor Mary Beard @wmarybeard.bsky.social
It explains why the deep past does really affect us all.
It's out next month book fans!
Order HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
If you pre-order my new "Talking Classics" book (in UK) before 16 April (pub. date) from Waterstones, you can enter a prize draw for a free trip for 2 to Pompeii (+ a guided tour from me). waterstones.com/win/talking-...
(If you've ordered already & didnt enter, you can cancel & reorder)
This week on Instant Classics we look at the Great Plague of Athens And we thinks about plagues and pandemics ancient and modern podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
We had a memorable evening in memory of the achievements of John North, who changed the way we understand Roman religion. It prompted some questions about how academic subjects change (by manifestos or who you have coffee with?) tinyurl.com/57u3wsv2 @thetls.bsky.social
A white marble table leg in the form of a lion head and descending into a claw as the foot. The view is from above and since there is no table top the inscription of P. Casca Long can be seen engraved into the table top support.
View across an atrium of the so-called House of Casca Longus (he never lived here!). To the left a blue painted wall. In the centre-right an impluvium basin with a circular ceramic cistern head nearest to us on one side. On the far side the white marble tripod table support.
One of the most remarkable objects in #Pompeii is a marble table support with P. Casca Longus inscribed on it. Longus was the 1st assassin to stab Julius Caesar on #IdesOfMarch (today in 44 BC). On his death Longus’ possessions were auctioned & this table was bought by a Pompeian
Getting up in Ullswater. How beautiful is that. Here for the Words by the Water Literature Festival at Keswick
The rhetoric of war... some thoughts here on "Gotcha", "Up Yours Galtieri" (remember?) and "Toast". Where does dispassion blur with euphemism? tinyurl.com/mmaz6p8k
Thank you!
I do hope people appreciate the joke! For my new book (partly reflecting on a career in Classics, partly asking 'WHY study the deep past?', 'What do we get out of it?'), I chose an 'author photo' taken by my friend Di, 50+ years ago. Book details: tinyurl.com/fktznv5c
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Posh nosh with the Romans. What do we make of all those stories of Roman culinary excess??
Rehearsing for our programme of women’s music at the wigmore hall tonight at 7.30 (8march). Hop along!
