Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.
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Episode 1
Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.
