The British professor discusses the deaths that impacted her the most, making it in a male field and the Summer of Love.
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Mary Beard. The Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge, 69, is a British TV host and author. Her books, includingMary Beard: “We all like to think that if we were living in an autocratic regime, we’d fight back. The Roman Empire suggests most of us wouldn’t.
We’d been reading the Athenian comic playwright Aristophanes. Aristophanes’ work has got some quite horny bits in it, but I didn’t realise that entirely. I’d been puzzled why, on our printouts, sometimes we jumped from line 950 to line 955. And I thought, “Why is that?” When I looked at the text, I discovered that, of course, the naughty bits had been cut out.There couldn’t possibly be anybody who looks back at their sexual history and says, “I did everything right.
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