The Fires of Vesuvius by Mary Beard

[dekekyo]

...as if!!!!!

[264468]

Paraponon, I have had the pleasure of being taught by Prof. Beard, and I think you'll find that she is actually quite an extraordinary academic. It would be difficult, after all, to become a faculty chair at one of the foremost centres for classical study without having done "real academic research." I'm sorry you had a bad experience with her, but that's hardly reason to slander her on the internet.

[paraponon]

andyham, presumably you have never had the experience of actually being "taught" by Mary Beard. She is pretty horrific up close, which is why the media career she has spent so many years carefully cultivating (as opposed to doing any actual real academic research) will be limited to writing a blog, and not extend to TV or radio, which would earn her the greater exposure her ego desperately craves for.

[andyham200]

love mary beard!