Dame Mary Beard | My Music: ‘Ancient music is elusive to historians’

Friday, July 12, 2024

The nation’s best-known classicist rediscovered classical music in her thirties, when exploring re‑workings of ancient myth

Dame Mary Beard (illustration: Philip Bannister)

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