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" There is no argument that I won't take seriously. "

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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.' "

" We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare. "

" No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote. "

" There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us. "

" I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule. "

" I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece. "

" 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. "

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

" You can't always worry about offending people. "

" If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. "

" A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. "

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

" Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity. "

" There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world. "

" If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You can get a lot from paintings without getting mystical about brush strokes. "

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

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

" If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. "

" I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people. "

" Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything. "

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

" Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like. "

" 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? "

" English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture. "

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

" I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl. "