So historian Mary Beard, 69, had to learn to snorkel to examine ... He is believed to have been murdered by his own wife, Agrippina the Younger. He died aged 63 in AD 54. On Rome's Palatine ...

In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling historian of the ancient world, Mary Beard, uncovers the stories ... flirtatious and curiously anxious young man. Here are six surprising ...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the classicist Mary Beard. A professor at Cambridge, she's that rare thing: a university academic who writes for the masses. Her popular books, blog, articles and ...

Mary Beard, Alessandro Schiesaro, Catharine Edwards and Melvyn Bragg debate the question.

Whilst a young lecturer at university, historian Mary Beard learnt the importance of using your own voice rather than imitating others. When I was in my 20s and early 30s, a very junior university ...

As Mary Beard campaigns for an 'old movement' to recognise ... one outspoken woman has said it's time to embrace reality and stop trying to look younger than we really are. UK historian and ...