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Meet the Romans with Mary Beard is a 2012 BBC documentary series written and presented by Mary Beard about the ordinary citizens of Ancient Rome, the world's first metropolis. It was repeated in 2020.
It premiered on Netflix on November 11, 2016. [2] Season 2, "Master of Rome", premiered on July 27, 2018; it is a five-part story about the rise of Dictator Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. [3] Season 3, "The Mad Emperor", premiered on Netflix on April 5, 2019, and is a four-part story about Emperor Caligula. [4]
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.
Civilisations is a 2018 British art history television documentary series produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. Individual episodes are presented by Simon Schama, Mary Beard, and David Olusoga, [1] with music composed by Tandis Jenhudson. [2]
The Greatest Night in Pop. The Greatest Night in Pop brilliantly details the historic recording of “We Are the World.” One night in 1985, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Kenny Rogers ...
Netflix has a fantastic collection of documentaries or docuseries, from gripping true-crime tales to eye-opening environmental exposés to intimate looks into the lives of your favorite musical ...
At the start of the 5th century AD Rome was under siege, threatened by a vast army of Goths, forty-thousand of them were poised at the city’s gates. Rome was defenceless, even the remnants of its garrisons abandoned their posts. The events that brought Rome to the brink of disaster had their roots in a betrayal two years earlier.