Season 1

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard

3 episodes

E01

Episode 12012-04-1760m

All Roads Lead to Rome

Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.

E02

Episode 22012-04-2460m

Streetlife

Mary heads into the streets to discover the dirt, crime, sex, and slum conditions in the world's first high-rise city. Oddly enough, the poorer you were, the higher you lived, with little space, light, or sanitation.

E03

Episode 32012-05-0160m

Behind Closed Doors

To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.