Mary Beard
Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge
11 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Catharine Edwards, Duncan Kennedy
Covers topics in categories such as:
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: Catharine Edwards, 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 encyclopedistsSpartacus
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Spartacus, a Roman gladiator who was involved in a series of slave uprisings against the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.
6 March 2014
Also featuring: Maria Wyke, Theresa Urbainczyk
Romulus and Remus
Melvyn Bragg and guests Mary Beard, Peter Wiseman and Tim Cornell discuss Romulus and Remus, the foundation myth of Rome.
24 January 2013
Also featuring: Peter Wiseman, Tim Cornell
Roman Satire
Melvyn Bragg and guests Mary Beard, Denis Feeney and Duncan Kennedy discuss Roman satire.
22 April 2010
Also featuring: Denis Feeney, Duncan Kennedy
The Augustan Age
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political regime and cultural influence of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
11 June 2009
Also featuring: Catharine Edwards, 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 personnelCarthage's Destruction
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the complete destruction of Carthage by Rome, a pivotal moment in world history.
12 February 2009
Also featuring: Jo Quinn, Ellen O'Gorman
The Greek Myths
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus.
13 March 2008
Also featuring: Nick Lowe, Richard Buxton
The Oath
Melvyn Bragg discusses the importance of the oath in the Classical World, from Homer’s Illiad to the role oath-making played in the expanding Roman Empire.
5 January 2006
Also featuring: Alan Sommerstein, Paul Cartledge
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, Catharine Edwards
Cultural Imperialism
Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea that a dominating power such as ancient Greece, Persia, Rome, Islam, Britain and now America can exert a cultural and imitative influence.
27 June 2002
Also featuring: Linda Colley, Phillip Dodd
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: Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf