Catharine Edwards
Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London
10 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Mary Beard, Alice König, Maria Wyke
Covers topics in categories such as:
Marcus Aurelius
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, meditations and reputation of this stoic and philosopher king, who Machiavelli called the last of the 'Five Good Emperors'.
25 February 2021
Also featuring: Simon Goldhill, Angie Hobbs
Seneca the Younger
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Seneca: philosopher, playwright, tutor to Nero, one of the first great writers born in the new Roman empire after the fall of the Republic.
23 February 2017
Also featuring: Mary Beard, Alessandro Schiesaro
Culture1st-century RomansExecuted philosophersMale essayistsExecuted writersSilver Age Latin writersLetter writers in Latin1st-century writersSuffect consuls of Imperial RomeRoman-era Stoic philosophersSuicides in Ancient RomeAncient Roman satirists1st-century executionsForced suicidesPeople executed by the Roman EmpirePeople from Córdoba, SpainAncient Roman encyclopedistsAgrippina the Younger
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman empress Agrippina the Younger, one of the most notorious and influential of the Roman empresses in the 1st century AD.
31 March 2016
Also featuring: Alice König, Matthew Nicholls
Pliny the Younger
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman lawyer and statesman Pliny the Younger, whose letters offer a fascinating insight into his life and the ancient world.
12 December 2013
Also featuring: Roy Gibson, Alice König
Cleopatra
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra, the Egyptian pharaoh whose charisma, intelligence and beauty made her one of the most celebrated rulers of the ancient world.
2 December 2010
Also featuring: Maria Wyke, Susan Walker
The Augustan Age
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political regime and cultural influence of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
11 June 2009
Also featuring: Mary Beard, Duncan Kennedy
Culture1st-century RomansJulio-Claudian dynastyAncient Roman adopteesJulii CaesaresRoman pharaohs1st-century Roman emperorsPeople in the canonical gospelsDeified Roman emperorsFounding monarchsAugustusPeople of the War of MutinaCharacters in Book VI of the AeneidShipwreck survivors1st-century BC Roman consuls, 1st-century BC Roman augursBurials at the Mausoleum of Augustus, Ancient Roman military personnelTacitus and the Decadence of Rome
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman historian Tacitus, whose portrayal of Roman decadence influences the way we see Rome today.
10 July 2008
Also featuring: Ellen O'Gorman, Maria Wyke
The Aeneid
Melvyn Bragg discusses ‘The Aeneid’, Virgil’s great epic poem that formed a founding narrative of Rome.
21 April 2005
Also featuring: Edith Hall, Philip Hardie
Roman Britain
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Romans in Britain, a history of 400 years of occupation. Do those four centuries still colour our national life and character today?
1 May 2003
Also featuring: Greg Woolf, Mary Beard
Rome and European Civilization
Melvyn Bragg discusses the role Rome has played in European civilization, from republicanism and imperialism to being the Catholic Heart of the Christian Church.
20 December 2001
Also featuring: Mary Beard, Greg Woolf