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Welcome to Being Roman with Mary Beard
Beneath the togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat are real Romans waiting to be discovered. Mary Beard introduces her six part series on the people of the Roman Empire.
Beneath starched Shakespearean togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. To know what it was to be Roman you need to gather the scattered clues until they form a living, breathing human, witness to the highs and horrors of Europe’s greatest empire. Mary Beard introduces her six part series on the people of the Roman Empire, from a slave to an emperor.
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Ancient Lives with Mary Beard
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