Mary Beard, described as the most famous classicist in Britain, presented her lecture titled “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum” on Friday, Jan. 31, in the cinema of the Lang Performing Arts Center. The Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College spoke for the 22nd iteration of the annual Helen North Memorial Lecture, created in honor of North, who taught at Swarthmore College for over 40 years.  Classics Department Chair and Scheuer Family Chair of Humanities William Turpin, who introduced the lecture and Beard’s achievements, compared North and … Continue reading Classicist Mary Beard on Confronting the Narratives and Debates on Museums