Cambridge Professor, First Lady of
Classics and newly appointed OBE, Mary Beard, has once again teamed
up with the BBC to create another illuminating film about her most
beloved subject, Ancient Rome.
In Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman
Town, Mary turns the usual question about how the inhabitants of the
doomed city died at the hands of the infamous eruption of Vesuvius,
asking instead, how did these people live?
A fascinating discovery of a haul of
skeletons, who did not succumb to the sea of ash that wiped out their
neighbours, found just three miles from the centre of Pompeii reveals
new insights into what Pompeian’s ate, drank and even the details
of their sex lives.
Mary, as engaging as ever, breathes new
life into one of the most revisited areas of ancient history.
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