Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. The author of numerous books and articles (including Pompeii: Life of a Roman Town, which won the Wolfson Prize for History), she is a Fellow of the British Academy and a regular contributor to both radio and television. More @Wikipedia
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