Meet the Romans with Mary Beard

Name: Meet the Romans with Mary Beard
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-04-17
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Mary Beard

7.5(21 votes)

1 Season

3 Episodes

April 17, 2012

Documentary

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.

Status

Ended

Created By

Mary Beard

Network

BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Miniseries

April 17, 2012

Episodes

Episode 1

All Roads Lead to Rome

April 17, 201260m6.0

Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.

Episode 2

Streetlife

April 24, 201260m5.0

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.