In a compelling conversation, historian Mary Beard challenges the idea that we can learn direct lessons from Ancient Rome. Instead, she argues that the classical world helps us question our own certainties, such as what it means to be a citizen. Discover how Rome’s distinctive, incorporate model of empire worked, and what domestic details like their public lavatories reveal about the gap between modern life and the Roman Empire's true reality.
From Mary Beard on Lessons from Ancient Rome
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