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Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit
In this four-part series classicist and historian, Professor Mary Beard draws on her immense scholarship, unique viewpoints and myth-busting approach to Roman history, to give her definitive take on the Roman Empire. How and why did it happen? In search of answers, she takes us to the most telling sites and the most revealing artifacts, and she examines the legacy the Roman Empire has left behind.
2016 7.6/10 community score 1 season · 4 episodes Ended
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A Roman World
Aired 1h
Mary tackles the biggest puzzle of all: why, and how, did the Roman Empire fall?
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