Series
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard
2012 · 1 season · 3 episodes · Ended · BBC Two
Documentary
TMDB 7.5 · 21 votes
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.
Episodes
- S01E01All Roads Lead to Rome2012-04-1760m
Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
- S01E02Streetlife2012-04-2460m
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.
- S01E03Behind Closed Doors2012-05-0160m
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.
