Jane Ellen Harrison
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Jane Ellen Harrison was a British classical scholar and linguist. With Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, Harrison is one of the founders of modern studies in Ancient Greek religion and mythology. She a
1925 portrait of Harrison by Théo van Rysselberghe
Pamphlet title page from "Homo Sum" Being a Letter to an Anti-Suffragist from an Anthropologist by Jane E. Harrison LL. D.
Mary Beard
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Dame Winifred Mary Beard is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambr
Jane Ellen Harrison
…1903. The depth and influence of Harrison's friendship with Eugénie Sellers Strong—ended by a dramatic breach in the 1890s—is explored in a monograph by Mary Beard: after their break-up Sellers became an influential authority on the material culture of Imperial Rome, while Harrison's work dug deeper and deeper…
Beard in 2017
Beard filming in Rome, 2012