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Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times, those citizens who would be in the top seats of the Colosseum. She takes a boat to Rome's port Ostia , where imported goods come from all over the Mediterranean, and she takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio .
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the United Kingdom by Profile Books and elsewhere by Liveright & Company.
Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) [1] is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. [2] She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
The historian was speaking amid a trend on social media that highlights how often men ponder the time of togas, swords and emperors.
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Beard therefore argues that such stories may in fact be myth-making rather than a report of actual reality. Another aspect of the oft-repeated later depiction of the triumph includes stories of harsh treatment of captives, which Beard argues may instead have involved a reality where they were treated relatively mildly before then often becoming ...
Mary Beard points to the edict as a fundamental turning point, after which Rome was "effectively a new state masquerading under an old name". [97] Macrinus conspired to have Caracalla assassinated by one of his soldiers during a pilgrimage to the Temple of the Moon in Carrhae, in 217 AD. Macrinus assumed power, but soon removed himself from ...
Rome: The World's First Superpower is a 2014 Channel 5 television series in 4 episodes narrated by Larry Lamb about the Roman Empire first broadcast in October 2014. [1] The series combined input from historians and CGI to present the history of ancient Rome.