![]() ![]() “The bigger picture and many of the more basic questions about the town remain very murky indeed,” she writes. eruption of Vesuvius, and it bears the marks of later excavations. Its history stretches back centuries before the 79 A.D. Pompeii was not frozen in amber, she argues. Her recent book The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Harvard University Press, 2008) introduces a note of mystery and uncertainty into what we think we know about Pompeii and the lives of ancient Romans. ![]() Beard is also the classics editor at the Times Literary Supplement, and she is the author of the popular blog, “A Don’s Life.”īeard’s scholarship h as long challenged certain widely held views of the ancient world. ![]() Beard is the author of a variety of essays and books on the ancient world, including: Religions of Rome, with John North and Simon Price (Cambridge University Press, 1998) The Parthenon (Harvard University Press, 2002) and The Roman Triumph (Harvard University Press, 2007). She was Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature for 2008–2009 at the University of California, Berkeley. Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at Cambridge University. Rome Unearthed: An Interview with Mary Beard on Pompeii and the Ancient World The full piece can be accessed on Project Muse. ![]() The latest issue of Historically Speaking includes my interview with Mary Beard. ![]()
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