Following her sold out 2025 tour and on the back of her new book, Talking Classics, Fane Australia is proud to announce Dame Mary Beard is coming to Australia and New Zealand. One of the world’s most celebrated classicists and historians, Mary will bring her treasure trove of lively stories, curious facts, and ancient gossip to the stage in An Evening with Mary Beard: Talking Classics.
Appearing in conversation with some very special guest hosts, Mary invites audiences to ask their burning questions - because, as she insists, the Classics are best explored through talking.
In what is always an engaging and insightful evening of discovery and storytelling, Mary Beard draws on fifty years of teaching and research to make a bold and incisive case for why classical studies remain thrillingly relevant today. Rather than treating the ancient world as a shrine to greatness, she presents it as something messy, surprising, contested, and continually capable of shocking us. From the everyday lives of ordinary Romans to the ways revolutionaries from Marx to Mandela found intellectual resources in classical study, Beard demonstrates that the distant past shapes how we understand our own world in ways we can’t afford to ignore.
Join Mary Beard live on stage for an evening of wit, wisdom, and wonder as she brings the ancient world vividly to life.
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