Mary Beard - Women & Power

A portrait of classicist Mary Beard, commissioned by the Getty for her 2019 Getty Medal, exploring her work on the ancient world and women's voices in power.

Mary Beard links ancient Rome to today's silencing of women, with wit and clarity.

Commissioned by The Getty Museum on the occasion of their 2019 Getty Medal to Mary Beard, one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals, a professor of classics at Cambridge University, and the author of numerous book

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