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
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.
I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people.
One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.
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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