Meet the Romans with Mary Beard
Miniseries
20123 episodes
Episode 1
All Roads Lead to Rome
Apr 17, 20121h
TMDB rating 6.0TMDB
Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
Episode 2
Streetlife
Apr 24, 20121h
TMDB rating 5.0TMDB
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.
Episode 3
Behind Closed Doors
May 1, 20121h
TMDB rating 5.0TMDB
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.