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My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.
- Mary Beard
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I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.
- Mary Beard
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We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.
- Mary Beard
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However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.
- Mary Beard
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You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.
- Mary Beard
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All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.
- Mary Beard
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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
- Mary Beard
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There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.
- Mary Beard
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Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.
- Mary Beard
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When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.
- Mary Beard
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When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
- 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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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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Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.
- Mary Beard
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There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.
- 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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At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!
- Mary Beard
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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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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.
- Mary Beard
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#People
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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