*Beard, Mary: -Mary Beardis the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR *. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in Englan...

*Beard, Mary: -Mary Beardis the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR *. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.