Professor Mary Beard - The Ancient World and us

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Professor Mary Beard - The Ancient World and us

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Mary Beard has given a series of lectures in the annual "prestigious Gifford Lectures series" at Edinburgh University entitled "Professor Mary Beard - The Ancient World and us: from fear and loathing to enlightenment and ethics". I found them entertaining and illuminating.

They are available here

https://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-so ... mary-beard
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Thanks for sharing this! I've listened to the first lecture on gladiator games and learned a lot. I plan to listen to the rest soon.

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fantastic lecture series: I love how she glosses "great conquerors" as "genocidal maniacs" lol

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A phrase she quite possibly borrowed from English history i.e. the jocular "genocidal maniac" theory of Anglo-Saxon conquest.
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