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Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'

~Mary Beard

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The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

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I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

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I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this.

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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

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Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.

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It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.

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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

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The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.

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What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple.

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