Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations - Hardcover

She's pulled off that rare trick of becoming a don with a high media profile who hasn't sold out, who is absolutely respected by the academy for her scholarship ... what she says is always powerful and interesting (Guardian)

She stands in the great tradition of myth-puncturing Latin classicists (New York Review of Books)

Beard is a very funny and penetrating commentator ... and has a fantastic knack for controversy. If they'd had Mary Beard on their side back then, the Romans would still have their empire (Daily Mail)

Professor Beard ... combines erudition with charm, wit and warmth in a way that's rare in academia. (Rowan Pelling Telegraph)

Beard is the best...communicator of Classics we have (Independent on Sunday)

witty, erudite collection...To Beard, the classical past is alive and kicking - and she has the great gift of being able to show just why classics is still a subject worth arguing about (Sunday Times)

highly engaging (Sunday Telegraph)

With such a champion as Beard to debunk and popularise, the future of the study of classics is assured (Daily Telegraph)

sparkling (The Lady)

so engaging, and at times so very funny (Edith Hall Times)