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Pompeii - Life and Death in a Roman Town

Pompeii – Life and Death in a Roman Town

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Pompeii – Life and Death in a Roman Town: one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. We know how its victims died, but this film sets out to answer another question – how did they live? Gleaning evidence from an extraordinary find, Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.     In a dark cellar in Oplontis, just three miles from the centre of Pompeii, 54 skeletons who didn’t succumb to the torrent of volcanic ash are […]

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Caligula

Caligula with Mary Beard

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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 brief, the tales of his exploits linger, painting a vivid portrait of a ruler like no other. Caligula’s reported escapades – from appointing his horse as a consul, to scandalous liaisons, and audacious architectural marvels – are tales that have

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Hadrian

Hadrian

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Dan Snow takes us on a journey around Hadrian’s vast empire.Immortalised in the UK after building a Wall on the edge of his Empire, which bears his name to this day. Hadrian’s Wall, as it is known, is just a tiny portion of a massive structure Hadrian had built to protect the Roman Empire, with similar, sister walls running through northern Europe and still more in north Africa. His legacy also includes the Pantheon in Rome.     Hadrian brought the Empire to an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity. At the heart of this great Empire, however, lay a

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Treasures of Ancient Rome

The Treasures of Ancient Rome [ 3 parts]

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Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire. The Romans were brilliant engineers and soldiers, but what isn’t as well known is that they also gave us wonderful artistic treasures. Treasures of Ancient Rome part 1     In this three-part series, Alastair Sooke argues that the old-fashioned view that the Romans didn’t do art is nonsense. He traces how the Romans during the Republic went from being art thieves and copycats to pioneering a new artistic style – warts ‘n’ all realism. Roman portraits reveal what the great names from history, men like Julius

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar Revealed

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Julius Caesar is the most famous Roman of them all: brutal conqueror, dictator and victim of a gruesome assassination on the Ides of March 44 BC. 2,000 years on, he still shapes the world. He has given us some political slogans we still use today (Crossing the Rubicon), his name lives on in the month of July, and there is nothing new about Vladmir Putin’s carefully cultivated military image and no real novelty in Donald Trump’s tweets and slogans.     Mary Beard is on a mission to uncover the real Caesar, and to challenge public perception. She seeks the

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