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Ancient Lives with Mary BeardBeing Roman, Series 1, Loving An EmperorMary Beard explores the Empire and meets its people

From the heart of Rome to the edges of empire, Mary Beard meets twelve intriguing Romans

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Archaeologist Lisa Fentress joins Mary at Hadrian's Villa

Recent archaeology has revealed more of the astonishing scale of the palace at Tivoli

  • Mary at Pompeii
  • Mary discusses the bars of the Roman Empire with Allison Emmerson
  • Mary explores Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
  • Archaeologist Lisa Fentress joins Mary at Hadrian's Villa
  • The view out to sea from Pompeii
  • Mary Beard meets twelve fascinating people who lived under the Roman Empire, from a slave to an emperor
  • Mary searches for the young Marcus Aurelius
  • Mary with archaeologist, Lisa Fentress
  • Mary meets Marcus Aurelius
  • The scene of the murder of Julius Caesar
  • Valentina Garulli of Bologna University and Mary get up close to the boy poet at Centrale Montemartini museum
  • Mary explores the theatre where the boy poet performed
  • An 11 year old poet overlooks the busy Roman street named after him
  • An ancient papyrus that reveals so much about the administration of the Empire, courtesy of Dublin's Chester Beatty Collection
  • The Roman Forum
  • Mary meets Regina, a freed slave remembered on a tombstone at Arbeia in South Shields, courtesy of Tyne and Wear Museums
  • Mary and Greg Woolf at Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields
  • Is this the tombstone of Barates, the Syrian husband of Regina?

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