Meet the Romans with Mary Beard
Miniseries
2012tvEnded1 Season · 3 Ep
Documentary
Created by: Mary Beard
Network: BBC Two
Season aired: 2012-04-17
Overview
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 · 3
1
All Roads Lead to Rome
1h 0m2012-04-17★ 6
Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
2
Streetlife
1h 0m2012-04-24★ 5
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.
3
Behind Closed Doors
1h 0m2012-05-01★ 5
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.
