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" People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. "

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" All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma. "

" One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values. "

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

" It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters. "

" Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute. "

" I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband. "

" The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them. "

" I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver. "

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

" I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud. "

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

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

" I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you bash down the walls of some enemy 50 miles away and you take some slaves, you take some cattle, probably a bit of cash too, and then you say goodbye and go home and you probably do the same thing next year - or try to, or they do it to you. "

" 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. "

" What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off. "

" My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history. "

" 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. "

" The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy. "

" One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation. "

" I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off. "

" 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. "

" My fantasy is going into a men's loo. And listening to what they say. "

" Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly. "

" When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration. "

" I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done. "

" I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently. "

" What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it. "

" I have always hated fancy dress parties. "

" It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women. "