ancient Rome

Rome's Invisible City

Rome’s Invisible City

Rome’s Invisible City: With the help of a team of experts and the latest in 3D scanning technology, Alexander Armstrong, along with Dr Michael Scott, explores the hidden underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient world. In his favourite city, he uncovers a lost subterranean world that helped build and run the world’s first metropolis and its […]

Rome’s Invisible City Read More »



Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 3 - Behind Closed Doors

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 3 – Behind Closed Doors

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 3 – Behind Closed Doors: We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome – a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 3 – Behind Closed Doors Read More »

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 2 - Streetlife

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 2 – Streetlife

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 2 – Streetlife: Professor Mary Beard discovers the crime and slum conditions in the world’s first high-rise city.     In this programme, Mary descends into the city streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex and slum conditions in the world’s first high-rise city. This Rome is not the marble Rome we know,

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 2 – Streetlife Read More »



Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 1 - All Roads Lead to Rome

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 1 – All Roads Lead to Rome

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 1 – All Roads Lead to Rome: Historical series looking at the Roman empire from the bottom up. Professor Mary Beard traces the story of several ordinary yet remarkable Roman citizens.     We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome – a city at the heart of a vast empire that

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard episode 1 – All Roads Lead to Rome Read More »

Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 3

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 4

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 4: In the fourth and final episode, Mary tackles the biggest puzzle of all: why, and how, did the Roman Empire fall? Surveying the massive walls and fortifications of Britain and Germany, she discovers an empire under pressure, struggling to control its borders.     Mary seeks to redefine our understanding of

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 4 Read More »



Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 3

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 3

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 3: In the third episode Mary takes an in-depth look at the question of identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire. What did it mean to be, or to become, Roman, and how did the very different parts of the empire react to Roman rule?     In the beautifully preserved cities

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 3 Read More »

Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 2

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 2

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 2: In the second episode, Mary Beard explores the physical world of the Roman Empire, and finds surprising parallels with our own world.     Setting out in the footsteps of the emperor Hadrian, she discovers a vast empire bound together by a common material culture, and a globalised economy of such

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 2 Read More »



Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 1

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 1

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 1: How could a mediocre city in central Italy come to dominate such a huge area? What held the empire together and tore it apart? Mary Beard takes in the history and archaeology of the ancient world.     In this first episode, Mary Beard reaches back to the myths and legends

Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit episode 1 Read More »

Hannibal in the Alps

Hannibal in the Alps

Hannibal in the Alps: Hannibal, one of history’s most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With a vast army of 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses and 37 war elephants, he crossed the mighty Alps in only 16 days to launch an attack on Rome from the north. For more than 2,000 years, nobody has been able to

Hannibal in the Alps Read More »

Caligula

Caligula with Mary Beard

Caligula – Professor Mary Beard delves deep into the enigmatic legacy of Caligula, a name that sends ripples through history even today. Was he Rome’s most whimsical despot, or is there more than meets the eye? Two millennia ago, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, fondly remembered or infamously known as Caligula, stepped into the world’s theater. While his reign was

Caligula with Mary Beard Read More »

Ancient God of War

Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War

Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War – Bettany Hughes investigates the enduring relationship between warfare and worship, by following the trail through time of the ancient god of war, Mars. She begins in Carthage, site of one of the most significant and bloodiest victories in the history of the Roman Empire and explores the vital role of Mars in Rome’s

Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War Read More »

Sex in the Ancient World — Pompeii and Egypt

Sex in the Ancient World

Sex in the Ancient World: In the beginning was sex. To the ancient cultures, sexuality, love and sex were inextricably connected with the creation of the earth, the heavens and the underworld. To the citizens of the ancient civilizations that gave birth to ours, sensuality and sexuality were an integral part of society.   Sex in the Ancient World –

Sex in the Ancient World Read More »

Scroll to Top