Meet the Romans with Mary Beard

BBC Four

1:35 AM to 2:35 AM

Tuesday 26 November

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The professor delves deeper into ordinary Roman life by going behind the closed doors of the family home. She tells the stories of eccentric wife Glyconis - praised by her husband for liking a drink or two - Allia Potestas, who lived in a menage a trois, and 11-year-old schoolboy Sulpicius Maximus, worked to death by his pushy parents. Mary also paints a more detailed picture of slavery, revealing that many Romans chose to be buried with their servants