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Winifred Mary Beard, OBE, FBA, FSA (born 1 January 1955) is an English Classical scholar. She is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge,〔 a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts professor of ancient literature. She is also the classics editor of the ''Times Literary Supplement'', and author of the blog, "A Don's Life", which appears in ''The Times'' as a regular column. Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist". ==Youth and education== Beard, an only child, was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her mother, Joyce Emily Beard, was a headmistress and an enthusiastic reader.〔〔 Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, worked as an architect in Shrewsbury. She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging".〔 Beard attended Shrewsbury High School, a private school for girls. During the summer she participated in archaeological excavations; this was to earn money for recreational spending.〔 At the age of eighteen she was interviewed for a place at Newnham College, Cambridge, and sat for the then-compulsory entrance exam.〔 She had thought of going to King's, but rejected it when she discovered the college did not offer scholarships to women.〔 Although studying at a single-sex college, she found in her first year that some men in the university held dismissive attitudes toward the academic potential of women, and this strengthened her determination to succeed. She also developed feminist views that remained "hugely important" in her later life, although she later described "modern orthodox feminism" as partly cant.〔 Beard has since said that "Newnham could do better in making itself a place where critical issues can be generated" and has also described her views on feminism, saying "I actually can't understand what it would be to be a woman without being a feminist." Beard received a BA (Hons) at Newnham, which in time was converted to an MA. She remained at Cambridge for her 1982 Ph.D. thesis entitled, ''The state religion in the late Roman Republic: a study based on the works of Cicero''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Beard (classicist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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