Prof Mary Beard, OBE

Career: lectr in classics KCL 1979-83; Univ of Cambridge: fell Newnham Coll 1984-, lectr in classics 1984-99, reader in classics 1999-2004, prof of classics 2004-; classics ed TLS 1992-; chair Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters British Sch at Rome 2002-06 (memb 1994-98)

Books and Publications: Rome in the Late Republic (jtly 1985, 2 edn 1999), The Good Working Mother's Guide (1989), Pagan Priests (co-ed, 1990), Classics: A Very Short Introduction (jtly, 1995, 2 edn 1999), Religions of Rome I (co-author, 1998), Religions of Rome II: A Sourcebook (co-author, 1998), The Invention of Jane Harrison (2000), Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (jtly, 2001), The Parthenon (2002), The Colosseum (jtly, 2004), The Triumph (2007), Pompeii: The life of a Roman town (2008); numerous scholarly articles, reviews and journalism