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Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA

The history, literature and culture of the classical world, and its impact on later periods

Elected 2010

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2010
Sections
Classical Antiquity
Website
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/mary-beard

Current post

Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge

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