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Leading scholar and classicist Dame Mary Beard has been outlining the themes being explored in her Edinburgh lecture series. Professor Beard is using this year’s Gifford Lectures to highlight that we are not so different from those living in the ancient world. #GiffordsEd | The University of Edinburgh

Mary Beard, one of the world's most respected classical scholars, shares her big ideas. | Big Think

“I see the classics all around me, but that’s me,” says eminent classicist Mary Beard. “I like studying the ancients—it’s partly because they’re interesting, but they also give me a way of focusing back on to the things about our own culture that they would find odd,” she adds. Mary Beard is one of the 2019 recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal for contributions to the arts, along with painter, photographer, and bookmaker Ed Ruscha and multimedia artist and photographer Lorna Simpson. Join Beard