Mary Beard, the "Academic"

Ok, I don't know quite to make of this interview with Mary Beard. Two things are striking to me.

The first is the assumption, so taken for granted that it's not even voiced, that her work is part of a political project. Her job, or part of her job, ... https://t.co/INIsg0WgxT

— PEG (@pegobry) May 20, 2021

Fr. Z: I hate this book more than any other book ever published.
(A History of the Athenian Constitution to the end of the Fifth Century B. C. by C. Hignett)