Mary Beard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 299351 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mary Beard |
| PRENOMES | Mary |
| SOBRENOME | Beard |
| ASSINATURA | BEARD M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newham College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 501 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1954 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future developme…
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Twelve Caesars
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the mos…
Les femmes et le pouvoir
Après le "triomphe romain" de SPQR, Mary Beard revient sur un sujet d'une actualité brulante : la question du pouvoir des femmes en occident, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Si la question de la place des femmes dans les structures du pouvoir est d’une actualité brûlante, la misogynie a des racines anciennes. Dès l’Odyssée d’Homère, les femmes se sont vues interdire tout rôle de premier plan dans la vie civique, le discours public, indissociable du p…
Große Theorien
Dass wir heute Pausanias’ Beschreibung von Bassai lesen können, verdanken wir, wie gesagt, den Mühen ganzer Generationen von Schreibern und Abschreibern, die Jahrtausende hindurch in ununterbrochener Folge gearbeitet haben. Seit der Renaissance haben Gelehrte diese Arbeit fortgesetzt, indem sie die klassischen Texte edierten und veröffentlichten. Das moderne Buch- und Bibliothekswesen lässt es als sehr unwahrscheinlich erscheinen, dass irgendeine…
Unter der Oberfläche
Pausanias’ Beschreibung des Tempels von Bassai legt uns die Frage nahe, was wir denn eigentlich über das Altertum wissen wollen. Nach Ansicht vieler heutiger Archäologen ist Pausanias auf seinen Reisen durch Griechenland ziemlich blind herumgetappt. Er hat nicht nur ein gut Teil Fehlinformationen über die Stätten verbreitet, die er besuchte, er hatte auch einen sehr beschränkten Maßstab für das, was er überhaupt in den Blick nahm. Sein Bild Griec…
Kleine Einführung in die Altertumswissenschaft
Kleine Einführung in Die Altertumswissenschaft
Mythos in Mythenloser Gesellschaft
The Public Voice of Women
This article, first published in the London Review of Books on 20 March 2013, takes the long view on the subject of women's public voice. From antiquity to the present day there are countless examples of women either excluded from speaking out in public life or ridiculed for doing so. This essay examines the nature and experience of oratory in Western culture and the ways in which public speaking has become gendered and how issues of voice and ge…
Laughter in Ancient Rome
Preface 1. Introducing Roman Laughter: Dio's Giggle and Gnatho's Two Laughs PART ONE 2. Questions of Laughter, Ancient and Modern 3. The History of Laughter 4. Roman Laughter in Latin and Greek PART TWO 5. The Orator 6. From Emperor to Jester 7. Between Human and Animal--Especially Monkeys and Asses 8.
Confronting the Classics
Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people-the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or…
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The Cult of the ‘Great Mother’ in Imperial Rome
This chapter explores the cult and rituals of Magna Mater (or Cybele) and Attis in imperial Rome. It briefly reviews the history and festivals of the goddess and the sacrifice of the taurobolium (focusing on the controversial account by Prudentius), throwing light on some of the very processes by which we can (or cannot) access ancient rituals and festivals. But the main focus is on the eunuch priests (or galli) and the unresolved tension between…
Cambridge’s ‘Shrine of the Muses’1
The display of the classical antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum changed dramatically between 1848, when the Museum opened, and 1898. At first sight, it appears to be a transition from disorder to order, ‘muddle’ to scientific classification. This paper investigates that transition. Drawing on Museum and University archives, it outlines the history of the growth of the classical collection over the first fifty years of the Fitzwilliam, in the c…
Cicero's ‘Response of the haruspices ’ and the Voice of the Gods
This article explores the religious importance of Cicero's De Haruspicum Responso against the background of prodigy-handling in Republican Rome. Comparing the prodigy in question to an ‘auditory epiphany’, it argues that key issues raised by the speech include the nature of the divine voice, the relationship of the prodigious ‘rumbling and clattering’ to the gods themselves, and the ambiguous temporalities implied by Roman practices of divination…
Les Romains riaient-ils
Le rire est l'un des plus difficiles et des plus fascinants objets historiques, tant il résiste à la possibilité de conclusions fermes et de systématisation. En partant du témoignage de Dion Cassius à propos d'un fou rire, au Colisée, en 192 av. J.-C., cet article explore les différents défis heuristiques de l'histoire du rire - plus particulièrement pour l'Antiquité classique. Il défend l'idée qu'il n'existe pas de ' théorie classique du rire ',…
The Fires of Vesuvius
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed hist…
Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte
Why Homer Was (Not) a Woman
Ancient Religions
The Roman Triumph
Dossier
Ce numéro est entièrement consacré au dossier intitulé : Et si les Romains avaient inventé la Grèce ? Cette question souligne la perspective anthropologique dans laquelle les chercheurs se sont situés pour aborder la question de l’intererculturalité et de l’altérité incluse dans le monde gréco-romain. Il s’agit ici de comprendre la façon dont les Romains ont pu se définir en tant que tels en se référant à une Grèce imaginaire et idéale, culturell…
The Roman Triumph
A complex of times
This paper argues that one of the functions of the Roman ritual calendar – the sequence of religious festivals as they occurred throughout the year – was to define and delineate Roman power, Roman history and Roman identity; and that it did this by evoking events from different chronological periods of the Roman past and arranging them in a meaningful sequence of time, but not a sequence defined by linear, narrative, history. I am concerned princ…
Cicero and Divination
This article is intended to be read in association with that of Schofield which follows. They share a common outlook—for we both believe that an understanding of the literary form of De Divinatione is integral to an understanding of its philosophical and historical point. But in detail our approaches are rather different. My own paper is the work of an historian and is concerned principally with the intellectual and cultural context of De Divinat…
Writing and Ritual
LA SCRITTURA E IL RITUALE: UNO STUDIO DELLE DIFFERENZE E DELL'ESPANSIONE NEGLI ACTA DEGLI ARVALI I documenti iscritti (‘Acta’) della Confraternità degli Arvali a Roma sono tradizionalmente trattati come documenti rigidamente standardizzati. Questo studio offre una nuova analisi di questo materiale religioso e dimostra sia la differenza dei documenti scritti sia la loro (a volte strana) tendenza all'espansione nel periodo compreso tra il I secolo …
The Sexual Status of Vestal Virgins
The Vestal Virgins have often been the subject of close scrutiny by classical scholars. Indeed many articles have been devoted to a careful analysis of individual, apparently trivial, aspects of their legal rights, their privileges, their cult obligations and even their dress. In the same tradition I intend in this paper to consider just one element of their priestly position: their sexual status and its relationship to their sacred status. It is…
Frazer, Leach, and Virgil, The Popularity (and Unpopularity) ofThe Golden Bough
In 1985 Edmund Leach, well into retirement from his chair of Anthropology in Cambridge, made his first visit to the site of the temple of Diana at Nemi, some fifteen miles southeast of Rome.Leach called this visit a pilgrimage, for Nemi and the problems of its bizarre cult were the starting place for James Frazer's founding work of Social Anthropology,The Golden Bough. This was the spot that Frazer described in such lavish detail in his opening c…
The Invention of Jane Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionised our understanding of Greek culture and religion. star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman - as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question …
The Fires of Vesuvius
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed hist…
Classics
This 'Very Short Introduction to Classics' links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture - from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur
Casts and cast-offs
‘ It's my PARTY... ;’ The Cambridge Museum of Classical and General Archaeology opened on 6 May 1884 with – what else? – a PARTY. Distinguished guests turned out, the University meeting the Aristocracy, Arts and Politics: H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor of Wales (the Queen's son, then an undergraduate), Sir Frederick Leighton (President of the Royal Academy), the painters Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward Poynter, the American Ambassador, Sir Frederick…
Souvenirs of Culture
Cicero's ‘Response of the haruspices ’ and the Voice of the Gods
This article explores the religious importance of Cicero's De Haruspicum Responso against the background of prodigy-handling in Republican Rome. Comparing the prodigy in question to an ‘auditory epiphany’, it argues that key issues raised by the speech include the nature of the divine voice, the relationship of the prodigious ‘rumbling and clattering’ to the gods themselves, and the ambiguous temporalities implied by Roman practices of divination…
With This Body I Thee Worship
Why do ancient writers tell us that sacred prostitutes massed on the citadel of ancient Corinth? What are we to make of Herodotus’ famous account of the ancient customs of Babylon? Beard and Henderson examine the formation of the discourse of sacred, or cultic, prostitution both in classical texts and modern scholarship. They take a sceptical position on the existence, in Greece and the Near East, of institutions traditionally envisaged as ‘sacre…
The Public Voice of Women
This article, first published in the London Review of Books on 20 March 2013, takes the long view on the subject of women's public voice. From antiquity to the present day there are countless examples of women either excluded from speaking out in public life or ridiculed for doing so. This essay examines the nature and experience of oratory in Western culture and the ways in which public speaking has become gendered and how issues of voice and ge…
The Force of Women in Japanese History
The Force of Women in Japanese History
The Sexual Status of Vestal Virgins
The Vestal Virgins have often been the subject of close scrutiny by classical scholars. Indeed many articles have been devoted to a careful analysis of individual, apparently trivial, aspects of their legal rights, their privileges, their cult obligations and even their dress. In the same tradition I intend in this paper to consider just one element of their priestly position: their sexual status and its relationship to their sacred status. It is…
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz, Continuity and Change in Roman Religion. Oxford
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Roman Inscriptions 1976–80
This survey of developments in Roman Epigraphy is innovatory in being the work of a team, whose range of interests should ensure the inclusion of a wider variety of texts than heretofore. We have all made some contribution, larger or smaller, to most sections, but, in the last resort, each section represents a personal choice by its writer. It may help the reader, therefore, to know that sections I and II are by Joyce Reynolds, III, VII, part of …
Writing and Ritual
LA SCRITTURA E IL RITUALE: UNO STUDIO DELLE DIFFERENZE E DELL'ESPANSIONE NEGLI ACTA DEGLI ARVALI I documenti iscritti (‘Acta’) della Confraternità degli Arvali a Roma sono tradizionalmente trattati come documenti rigidamente standardizzati. Questo studio offre una nuova analisi di questo materiale religioso e dimostra sia la differenza dei documenti scritti sia la loro (a volte strana) tendenza all'espansione nel periodo compreso tra il I secolo …
Roman Inscriptions 1981–5
Like the survey of 1981, this is the product of a team: Reynolds is responsible for the introduction and sections II–VI, Beard for sections I, VII–IX and XI, Roueché for section X. Reynolds has, as previously, acted as editor; it is planned that from the next survey in 1991 Beard will take over this role
Cicero and Divination
This article is intended to be read in association with that of Schofield which follows. They share a common outlook—for we both believe that an understanding of the literary form of De Divinatione is integral to an understanding of its philosophical and historical point. But in detail our approaches are rather different. My own paper is the work of an historian and is concerned principally with the intellectual and cultural context of De Divinat…
Rome in the Late Republic
A complex of times
This paper argues that one of the functions of the Roman ritual calendar – the sequence of religious festivals as they occurred throughout the year – was to define and delineate Roman power, Roman history and Roman identity; and that it did this by evoking events from different chronological periods of the Roman past and arranging them in a meaningful sequence of time, but not a sequence defined by linear, narrative, history. I am concerned princ…
Reading Mary Beard
Pagan Priests
Souvenirs of Culture
Frazer, Leach, and Virgil, The Popularity (and Unpopularity) ofThe Golden Bough
In 1985 Edmund Leach, well into retirement from his chair of Anthropology in Cambridge, made his first visit to the site of the temple of Diana at Nemi, some fifteen miles southeast of Rome.Leach called this visit a pilgrimage, for Nemi and the problems of its bizarre cult were the starting place for James Frazer's founding work of Social Anthropology,The Golden Bough. This was the spot that Frazer described in such lavish detail in his opening c…
Roman Inscriptions 1986–90
This survey does not aim at completeness. It is a personal selection, on the one hand, of recent epigraphic work which is of significance and interest to an ancient historian, and, on the other hand, of those epigraphic ‘tools of the trade’ which are important for anyone trying to interpret an inscription. But we start with some more narrowly epigraphic topics. If the death of Louis Robert and concern for the future of the Bulletin épigraphique o…
Religion
THE CONSTANTS Roman religion had its centre in politics, military activity and public life. The gods of the Roman state, in co-operation with its political leaders, ensured Rome's safety, prosperity and victory in war; while, on the part of men, the proper fulfilment of ritual and cult obligations ensured the gods' continuing support of the city. Religion was not principally concerned with private morality, ethics or the conduct of the individual…
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the 'Fall of the Roman Republic'. Chapters 1-12 supply a narrative of the period from 133 BC to the death of Cicero in 43 BC, with a prelude analysing the situation and problems of the Republic from the turning-point year 146 BC. Chapters 13-19 offer analysis of aspects of Roman society, institutions, and ideas during the period. …
The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the 'Fall of the Roman Republic'. Chapters 1-12 supply a narrative of the period from 133 BC to the death of Cicero in 43 BC, with a prelude analysing the situation and problems of the Republic from the turning-point year 146 BC. Chapters 13-19 offer analysis of aspects of Roman society, institutions, and ideas during the period. …
Casts and cast-offs
‘ It's my PARTY... ;’ The Cambridge Museum of Classical and General Archaeology opened on 6 May 1884 with – what else? – a PARTY. Distinguished guests turned out, the University meeting the Aristocracy, Arts and Politics: H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor of Wales (the Queen's son, then an undergraduate), Sir Frederick Leighton (President of the Royal Academy), the painters Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward Poynter, the American Ambassador, Sir Frederick…
Re‐Reading the Greek Revolution
Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture edited by Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne , Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 341 pp., 34 b. & w. illus., £40.00
Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie
With This Body I Thee Worship
Why do ancient writers tell us that sacred prostitutes massed on the citadel of ancient Corinth? What are we to make of Herodotus’ famous account of the ancient customs of Babylon? Beard and Henderson examine the formation of the discourse of sacred, or cultic, prostitution both in classical texts and modern scholarship. They take a sceptical position on the existence, in Greece and the Near East, of institutions traditionally envisaged as ‘sacre…
Roman Inscriptions 1991–95
This survey is intended primarily to assess the impact on Roman studies in general of recent work in Roman epigraphy — whether newly published inscriptions, revised editions, or texts that have been reconsidered or newly analysed in the light of specific themes. We mean to draw attention to those epigraphic studies that make a significant contribution, in particular, to Roman history. Hence the considerable space we devote below to the newly publ…
Roman Religion Revived
Wege in die Antike
Große Theorien
Daß wir heute Pausanias’ Beschreibung von Bassai lesen können, verdanken wir, wie gesagt, den Mühen ganzer Generationen von Schreibern und Abschreibern, die Jahrtausende hindurch in ununterbrochener Folge gearbeitet haben. Seit der Renaissance haben Gelehrte diese Arbeit fortgesetzt, indem sie die klassischen Texte edierten und veröffentlichten. Das moderne Buch- und Bibliothekswesen läßt es als sehr unwahrscheinlich erscheinen, daß irgendeiner d…
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