NPR News: Mary Beard illuminates the ancient world -- and our own -- in 'Talking Classics'

Mary Beard illuminates the ancient world -- and our own -- in 'Talking Classics'
As a classics professor, Beard has spent her career pondering life in the ancient world. The central question of her latest book is: What on earth was it like to be there?

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