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Mary Beard
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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. Mary Beard
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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women? Mary Beard
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute. Mary Beard
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There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us. Mary Beard
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It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker. Mary Beard
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The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them. Mary Beard
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No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote. Mary Beard
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Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity. Mary Beard
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A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit. Mary Beard
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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back. Mary Beard
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Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like. Mary Beard
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I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule. Mary Beard
Women Too Much Thought Too Enough Outrage Always Traded Movement Much Ridicule
English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture. Mary Beard
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It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters. Mary Beard
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It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women. Mary Beard
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I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. Mary Beard
Remember Black Power Angela Kitchen Davis Pictures
One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions. Mary Beard
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Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything. Mary Beard
Best Idiot Hundreds Way Out Pretend Would Had Perfectly Nobody Qualified Anything Choosing University
In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers. Mary Beard
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I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television. Mary Beard
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For whatever reason, some sorts of women's silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to a much more careful attention to women's voices. Mary Beard
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I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.' Mary Beard
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver. Mary Beard
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History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say. Mary Beard
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The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy. Mary Beard
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One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress. Mary Beard
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