Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (2012)
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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.
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Episode 1 - All Roads Lead to Rome
April. 17,2012
Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
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Episode 2 - Streetlife
April. 24,2012
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.
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Episode 3 - Behind Closed Doors
May. 01,2012
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.
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