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A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Oct 8, 2008
It’s nine o’clock Tuesday evening and I have just finished writing Thursday’s lecture. The aim is to finish in time each week to give me at least 8 hours to get my graduate class together (on Suetonius' Life of Nero, a …
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A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Oct 5, 2008
I am now – and for the next 5 weeks – living the life of a hermit-scholar, writing my Sather lectures, one a week. I’ve taken the car back to the rental company because I shan’t be going anywhere and I walk to the …
A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 23, 2008
This time last night I was at the Emmy’s. On the red carpet and at the Governor’s Ball, no less. My last post hinted at some celebrity culture coming up, Well yesterday I was eyeball to eyeball with Tom Hanks, Jon …
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A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 16, 2008
OK – to celebrate my new book (officially out on 18th, sorry to repeat)… here’s my favourite facts and non-facts about Pompeii. 1. The inhabitants of the Roman town were all killed by the eruption of 79. Wrong. Just …
A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 31, 2008
So far as I can tell, the whole population of Berkeley is going to vote for Obama. Even I start to long for a McCain bumper sticker or poster, just as a reminder that Obama still has an election to win. When we’re …
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A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 24, 2008
The ancient Olympic Games were considerably more modest than our own -- and no synchronised diving, thank heavens. But the Greek cities made even more of a fuss than we do about their victorious, medal winning (or …
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A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 20, 2008
How do you match the Chinese? As the Olympic Games draw to a close, presumably the London 2012 organisers get even more jittery about how they can even start to match the Beijing extravaganza, on half the money. There …
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A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 17, 2008
Before I went on Any Questions last week I did a good deal of homework on Georgia etc. The one thing that was quickly very clear was that there were no ‘goodies’ in this conflict. It’s certainly hard to condone the …
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A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 13, 2008
I am one of those inverted patriots who takes considerable comfort in Team GB doing as usual (ie badly) at the Olympics. For me it’s a badge of honour that our precocious 14 year old and his partner managed to come …
A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 10, 2008
I’m now full steam ahead on my Berkeley lectures about Roman laughter. And to be precise, off to spend the rest of Sunday in the library (thank heavens that our Faculty gives us access 24/7), for a side-splitting …