Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive co

Britain's best known classicist speaks her mind on the ancient, and modern, worlds.

Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. In this second collection following on from the success of It's a Don's

Mary Beard and John Henderson link a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to classics within mo

Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome’s most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its cran