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Episodes
E1
★ 6.0
All Roads Lead to Rome
April 17, 2012
Prof Mary Beard takes the Via Appia to Rome to show the lives of ordinary citizens in imperial times.
E2
★ 5.0
Streetlife
April 24, 2012
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.
E3
★ 5.0
Behind Closed Doors
May 1, 2012
To learn about their family life, Beard looks at the thousands of tombstones of ordinary Romans, their children and slaves.
