Mary Beard on Classical Women (100th episode special!)
THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, for the very special 100th EPISODE, we interview one of the world\u2019s leading cultural commentators and most important voices in Classics, Professor Dame MARY BEARD!!\n\nA specialist in Roman history and art, Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College, where she has been since 1984. She is also Professor of Ancient Literature at the Royal Academy, Classics editor of the TLS and a Fellow of the British Academy and International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \n\nOne of the most important writers of our age, Mary Beard has written groundbreaking scholarship, books, documentaries and articles on the subject such as The Parthenon, Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town, Laughter in Ancient Rome, and SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, And more recently, Women and Power: A Manifesto and Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern about Roman Emperors in Renaissance and later art, two books which shifted my understanding of the perception and role of women in society today and the nature of power in our Western word \u2026 and I couldn\u2019t be more honoured to have her on for this very special episode of the Great Women Artists Podcast. \n\nIn this episode we discuss the women artists in the ancient world, the perception of women from ancient times to the present day \u2013 looking at Livia, Melassina, Agrippina, and Cleopatra \u2013 and the effect of the depictions of women from the ancient world \u2013 Venus, Medusa, Athena, Lilith \u2013 and how they filter into society today.\n\n--\n\nTwelve Caesars (2021): https://www.waterstones.com/book/twelve-caesars/mary-beard/9780691222363 \n\nWomen & Power (2017): https://www.waterstones.com/book/women-and-power/professor-mary-beard/9781788160612 \n\nLecture by Mary Beard on women of the 12 Caesars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB7W0UzVP24 \n\nEdmonia Lewis The Death of Cleopatra (completed 1876)\nhttps://americanart.si.edu/artwork/death-cleopatra-33878 \n\nDetail from The House of the Surgeon, a panelled painting in Pompeii (c.50-79 AD) - shows a woman in front of a painted canvas holding a paintbrush and mixing her paints: \nhttps://www.theancientartblog.com/post/women-painters-in-antiquity \n\nWomen artists in antiquity:\nhttps://www.theancientartblog.com/post/women-painters-in-antiquity \n\n--\n\nENJOY!\n\nFollow us:\nKaty Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nResearch assistant: Viva Ruggi\nSound editing by Nada Smiljanic\nArtwork by @thisisaliceskinner\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield\n\nhttps://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/\n\n--\n\nTHIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY CHRISTIES: www.christies.com