The historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”. By Rachel Cunliffe When Mary Beard took aim at Boris Johnson, she shot to kill. It was ...

Recommended Boris Johnson – live: Outgoing PM promises ... a closer look at the Roman’s treatment of the Aequi, as Ms Beard suggests. Julius Caesar, fatally knifed by his own allies ...

Boris Johnson included a “spooky” classical reference ... and what did Johnson mean by including it? Professor Mary Beard, a scholar of ancient Rome, told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme ...

Protesters cover Boris Johnson's books with other titles The ... Sad Little Men by Richard Beard, A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh and Italian Coastal by Amber Guinness were all used to cover ...

Classics professor Mary Beard said: “If you are curious about Boris Johnson’s reference to Cincinnatus in his goodbye speech – he was a 5th century BC Roman politician who saved the state ...

Credit: PA Boris Johnson's reference to an Ancient ... office could be on the cards in future. Historian Mary Beard - whom Mr Johnson once debated on the relative merits of Ancient Greece versus ...