Mary Beard (classicist)
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Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Newnham College. She is also Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Her books include Classics: A Very Short Introduction (with John Henderson, (2000), Rome in the Late Republic (with Michael Crawford, 2000), The Invention of Jane Harrison (2000), Classical Art from Greece to Rome (with John Henderson, 2001), The Parthenon (2002) and The Colosseum (with Keith Hopkins, 2005).