United Kingdom, Scholar January 1, 1955
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar and classicist. The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible".
Also known as Classical Scholar
I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between men and women operated. We wanted to change those power differentials; we also had a good time.
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.
My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.
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