Mary Beard, a Cambridge scholar who writes accessible essays on ancient Greece and Rome, delivered the first of six lectures this afternoon at the National Gallery of Art. She can be counted on to comment insightfully on the aspirations of Washington, D.C., which has more than its fair share of classically inspired monuments and temples. Phillip Kennicott previewed the lecture series in yesterday's Washington Post. There is a schedule for the lectures at the end of Kennicott's article.
Pictured above the Patent Office in D.C., the Pantheon in Rome, and Greenough's statue of George Washington in a toga.
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