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Meet the Romans with Mary Beard is a 2012 BBC documentary series written and presented by Mary Beard about the ordinary citizens of Ancient Rome, the world's first metropolis. It was repeated in 2020.
Civilisations is a 2018 British art history television documentary series produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth Clark. Individual episodes are presented by Simon Schama, Mary Beard, and David Olusoga, [1] with music composed by Tandis Jenhudson. [2]
Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) [1] is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. [2] She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
The BBC announced in 2015 that it was to make a ten-episode sequel to Clark's series, to be called Civilisations (plural), with three presenters, Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama. A co-production with PBS in the United States, it would not cover western European civilisation in the same detail, but would additionally cover Graeco ...
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Beard therefore argues that such stories may in fact be myth-making rather than a report of actual reality. Another aspect of the oft-repeated later depiction of the triumph includes stories of harsh treatment of captives, which Beard argues may instead have involved a reality where they were treated relatively mildly before then often becoming ...
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