Quotes About Mary Beard

I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard's 'Women & Power: A Manifesto' brought me a sense of solidarity, power and determination.

I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.

I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.

It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters.

When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.

thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.

hostis (a 'foreigner' or an 'enemy'; the same Latin word, significantly, can mean both)

Whatever the exact date of the wolf herself, the baby twins are certainly later additions, made in the fifteenth century explicitly to capture the founding myth. Copies are found all over the world, partly thanks to Benito Mussolini, who distributed them far and wide as a symbol of Romanità.

By comparison, one controversial consul in 59 BCE got off lightly: he was merely pelted with excrement and spent the rest of his year of office barricaded at home.

It was then that he gained the nickname adulescentulus carnifex: 'kid butcher' rather than enfant terrible.

Suetonius, in his series of biographies The Twelve Caesars

a parade of reluctance has often provided a useful cover for ruthless ambition.

For me, as much as for anyone else, the Romans are a subject not just of history and inquiry but also of imagination and fantasy, horror and fun.