2012
1 Season
3 Episodes
EN
Ended
PGAbout
Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.
#ancient rome
Cast
Mary Beard
as Self - Presenter
Seasons
Episodes
Miniseries
E1
All Roads Lead to Rome
Apr 17, 20121h 0m6.0
Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
E2
Streetlife
Apr 24, 20121h 0m5.0
Mary heads into the streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex, and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. Oddly enough, the poorer you were, the higher you lived, with little space, light, or sanitation.
E3
Behind Closed Doors
May 1, 20121h 0m5.0
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.
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