Mary Beard: what is new BBC show Forbidden Art about, who is the classicist and why is she famous?

Hiyah Zaidi
By Hiyah Zaidi
3rd Feb 2022, 3:42pm
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BBC documentary Forbidden Art will explore thought-provoking and sometimes controversial works of art

Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art is a two-part documentary airing on BBC Two, which centres around thought-provoking and controversial works of art that were shocking at the time.

But who is Dame Mary Beard and why is she famous??

Who is Dame Mary Beard? 

Dame Mary Beard is an English Scholar who specialises in Ancient Roman civilisation and since 2004, has been a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge.