# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Mary Beard - Talking Classics
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: 'The reigning queen of the classics' - The Spectator

What's exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What's the point? 

The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone. They are not the property of wealthy white men only. They make us wonder how to make sense of people who lived long ago (from angry landlords to giggling senators) - and to think harder about our own world, to look at it differently.

In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. It's not compulsory, she argues, to be excited by antiquity, but it's a shame not to be. After half a century teaching and studying classics, she fills the book with lively stories, curious facts and some good gossip. Talking Classics explains why the deep past does really affect us all.

Mary Beard is the most acclaimed classicist working today. She is the Professor Emerita of Classics at Cambridge and is the Classics editor of the TLS. She is also the co-host, with Charlotte Higgins, of the podcast Instant Classics. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii as well as Confronting the Classics, SPQR, Women & Power and Emperor of Rome. Her work has been published in over 35 languages.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/monmouth/mary-beard-talking-classics/200029576346643
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Monmouth
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: The Blake Theatre, Monmouth
- **lat**: 51.81166
- **long**: -2.71246
- **full address**: The Blake Theatre, Monmouth, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: Rossiter Books (https://allevents.in/org/rossiter-books/20341164)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Blake Theatre, Monmouth, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Rossiter Books
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Mary Beard - Talking Classics ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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