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Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.

~Mary Beard

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Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it.

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There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

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In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.

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You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre.

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I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.

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I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.

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The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.

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There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.

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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

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