Professor Mary Beard asks not what the Romans did for us, but what the Empire did for Rome? Mary rides the Via Appia, climbs up to the top seats of the Colosseum, takes a boat to Rome’s port Ostia and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio. She also meets some extraordinary Romans.

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