Mary Beard illuminates the ancient world — and our own — in ‘Talking Classics’

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;

That’s a line from a Yeats’ poem, appropriately entitled “A Drinking Song.” Love did indeed come “in at the eye” for the distinguished classics scholar Mary Beard. In her new book called, Talking Classics, Beard, who grew up middle class in an English village, recalls being taken as a child by her mother for her first visit to London in 1960.

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