The Invention of Jane Harrison (Harvard University Press, 2000); ISBN 0-674-00212-1 (About Jane Ellen Harrison, 1850–1928, one of the first female career academics) Demianyk, Graeme (10 December 2015). "BBC Question Time: Cambridge Scholar Mary Beard Thinks Jeremy Corbyn Has Acted With 'Dignity' Against Hostile Media". The Huffington Post . Retrieved 1 May 2018. In The Fires of Vesuvius, Cambridge University classics professor Mary Beard restores Pompeii in all its bustling everydayness… But as vivid and detailed a depiction as Beard is able to provide, what is equally fascinating about Pompeii is how much we do not know… Beard calls this the ‘Pompeii paradox,’ the fact that ‘we simultaneously know a huge amount and very little about life there.’ That’s also what makes this learned but lively account a rather haunting read. Oddly familiar images of daily life two millenniums distant are juxtaposed with a sense of impenetrable mystery. ‘A visit to Pompeii almost never disappoints,’ Beard insists. To read this book is to agree. ” —Marjorie Kehe, Christian Science Monitor Contrary to more popular thought, the Pompeiians knew that something nasty was coming up. The eruption of the Vesuvius on the 25th of August in 79 CE had been preceded by a nasty earthquake in 62 and a series of serious tremors. Out of the possibly 12k population, about 2k perished during the explosion and of these only about half have been found. Many had left then. Pompeiians however could not have been aware of how dangerous that mountain was. Even if there had felt an uneasy foreboding, they did not know they lived by a volcano. The previous explosion had taken place about 1500 years before.

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Ando, Clifford (29 February 2016). "The Rise and Rise of Rome". The New Rambler . Retrieved 24 May 2016.Discover the captivating origins and hidden meanings of the flags that we all know today in this sparkling tour through this universal subject! The Planets is a thrilling tour of our solar system by Andrew Cohen and Professor Brian Cox, in a Folio edition with breathtaking NASA photography from the latest space missions. Did it feel like a timely moment to examine the nature of one-man rule, with the rise in recent years of strongman governments? Bernardine Evaristo. I first came across her when she wrote this novel in poetry called The Emperor’s Babe, and I thought, who’s going to write a novel about Roman history in verse, this could be terrible – but my eyes opened and it was brilliant. Ever after I’ve thought she was great. saw Beard present Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed with Mary Beard on BBC One in March. [48] While May 2016, brought about a four-part series shown on BBC Two, titled Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit. [49]

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The Sather Professor". University of California, Berkeley Department of Classics. Archived from the original on 10 August 2012 . Retrieved 16 July 2008. I’d like to say yes, but I think in some ways it’s always a timely moment to think about one-man rule and the politics of corruption, dictatorship and autocracy. You can guess that it will have a relevant landing whenever you’re writing. Recently, it seems to have become the mark of a really A-list historical disaster that it has featured on Doctor Who. So it was, for instance, during the most recent season that the Doctor, fresh from having prevented a Titanic-shaped spaceship from crash-landing on London, arrived in the Roman town of Pompeii. The date, of course, was AD79: the fateful year in which Mount Vesuvius spectacularly blew.I read a lot of this. I carry it everywhere. I really like Mary Beard. But I can't finish it. I'm not sure if it is the repetition of details in a different way time and again or what, because I really did enjoy it and one day I will finish it. I WILL. Pompeii and ancient Greek and Roman culture interest me a lot.